The Bottomless Pit Woyzeck

Topic# 1: A commentator has remarked, “ Clearly Buchner considered that while social revolution might help the Woyzeck’s of the world, it could hardly save them”. Is Buchner’s vision of the world of Woyzeck essentially fatalistic, a dystopia from which there is no escape? Georg Buchner’s classic play “Woyzeck”, unfinished, yet ahead of its time, has only this past century achieved notoriety for its visionary script and modernity. Buchner, a young radical of his …

…viewer. Buchner wanted to portray real life, with very human characters, and his view is that society is to blame for all evils, that the world is essentially going to the dogs for these people, in a never-ending cycle of torment and affliction. Buchner also allows the reader no hope to fix this situation, as unfortunately the play was never finished and one shall never know, or feel, the complete conclusion and resolution of” Woyzeck”.