b chner woyzeck
WOYZECK Büchner’s Woyzeck, if considered in terms of drama of its own time, is a unique work. ... Büchner was artistically way ahead of his time. Since Ancient Greek era and in Renaissance theather, until Woyzeck, all tragedies were in the same form of chronological flow, events following each other in a time-based order, in succeeding reason-result relationship. ... But Büchner; also being a rebel against oppresive regimes – he had a passion for politics and revolutionary acts in his youth – started an innovation in drama. His work Woyzeck, is the first tragedy dealing with the life of an ordinary man, a lowly soldier, Franz Woyzeck. Until then, the acts of a man from the mob were considered trivial and Woyzeck could only have been a character in a comedy or a minor role in a tragedy. Büchner’s style is realistic and the language he uses is ordinary and simple, in harmony with the characters. Franz Woyzeck is not very clever, but he is intelligent enough to know that he is leading a miserable life. ... Woyzeck is actually an anti-hero, rather than a tragic hero. Woyzeck thinks that life is empty inside and the ordinary people like him are leading a meaningless life. To prove that, remember Woyzeck, in the first scene he is walking at open fields with his friend Andres, stamping on the ground, Woyzeck says: “Hollow, do you hear?