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A play (actually just a [[Author Existence Failure|fragment]]) by Georg Büchner, who died in 1837 while working on it. Revolutionary for its time because up until that period, [[Tragedy]] as a genre was reserved for stories about the upper classes. Its companion piece is Büchner's play ''Leonce and Lena'', which conversely is a scathing comedy about the upper
Franz Woyzeck is a soldier with a child out of wedlock. To help make his living, he does odd jobs for his commanding officer and participate in "medical" experiments. He's gone completely crazy - seeing apocalyptic visions everywhere - but no one seems interested in that. When his wife, out of a mixture of boredom and hopelessness, begins seeing a Drum Major, Woyzeck lashes out.
In 1979, [[
[[Tom Waits]] and Robert Wilson have written a [[Rock Opera]] based on the play. Alban Berg also composed an [[Opera]], titled ''Wozzeck''.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Woyzeck himself in the end.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Every character agrees, being poor sucks! It probably works better on stage.
* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: The "fairy tale" the grandmother tells the children. You can listen to it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RQkTMDqW8 here] as part of a [[
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Marie starts seeing a Drum Major. [[It Got Worse|Bad idea]].
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humiliation Conga]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: Woyzeck can't afford a pistol, you see.
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* [[No Name Given]]: Drum Major. The Doctor. The Captain. The Workmen.
* [[Out, Damned Spot!]]: {{spoiler|A fatal variety.}}
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: The grandmother's fairy tale.
* [[There Are No Psychologists]]: Woyzeck is clearly mad because of the abuse he's under, but no one seems to care least of all The Doctor. His best friend tries to get him to go to the infirmary to no avail. Justified in that psychology kind of ''didn't exist yet''.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Actually ''expected'' in adaptations of ''Woyzeck'', since the play was unfinished due to [[Author Existence Failure]].
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: Averted, but not to the point of [[The Dung Ages]].
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: The Drum Major beats up the tiny, underfed Woyzeck after he finds out Woyzeck knows about his wife's affair. And the Doctor throws his cat out the window to see how it lands on its feet.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: The Doctor:
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** Oddly enough, he seems to be the most cheerful of all the characters.
*** In Alban Berg's opera, he's listed as a buffo bass. ''Buffo.''
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A string quartet plays the same song over Woyzeck's humiliating PT in the opening credit, Eva dancing with the Drum Major, and {{spoiler|Woyzeck's murder of Eva}}.
* [[Typecasting]]: Just like in ''[[
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* [[Belly of the Whale]]
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: "Lullaby"
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: "Woe"
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