Spring Awakening Character Analysis

In Spring Awaking by Frank Wedekind’s. There are many interesting characters that need to make the play work. In this paper, we are going to take a deeper look at two of the character. These characters names are wendla and Melchior. Wendla is a fourteen-year-old. She is the daughter of Mrs. Bergmann. Wendla has grown up with Melchior and Moritz who are two of the other main characters in the play. She has one sister, Ina, who is married. Wendla represents the puritan that women should have been at this time. She was a good girl. She never did anything wronged, as well as she always did what she was told. At the same time, she is also in some ways a representation of sexuality but she does not know this. You see this in the first act when her mother is fitting her for her dress. Wendla Bergmann confides to her mother that she sometimes thinks about death. When she asks her mother if that is sinful, her mother avoids the question. Wendla jokes that she

You see this in almost everything that Melchior did. You also see this when Melchior is talking to the main in the mask. There is a glimpse of hope at the end of the play when Melchior is saying goodbye to Moritz who is dead at the time. Both Melchior and wendla characters seemed connected because they both were main characters as well as they both was intelligent that they were not talking about sex in the same way. Melchior knows at sexual reproduction where Wandla knows nothing about sexual reproduction. They were both also young and have so much more to learn about life. There are many characters that could have been explained for what they represent in play but wendla and Melchior are the most interesting because they are set up to show you the gender roles that were in place at the time that the play was written. They also give you a new outlook on adulation and the changing of