I'm not sure how I'd summarize the plot of 'The Beggar. ' I think that the expressionist themes asserted in 'The Beggar' are kind of the point -- at least a lot more than the plot is. The plot pretty much revolves around the central character, the "Beggar," and the rest of the characters center around him.
None of the characters in the play, including the "Beggar" have names. A "girl" the "Beggar" knows is having an illegitimate child. I'm not sure how I'd summarize "The Beggar." "Strange" is probably the best way I'd summarize it.
I think this link might help: enotes.com/odp-encyclopedia/beggar.
Sorry to say I've been searching on your question for a good chunk of time now and all I seem to find is stuff in German about him, and not necessarily something about The Beggar from 1912. The closest thing I find is about a movie from 1920, based in France called The Little Beggar Boy (1912), which I don't think is related at all. I can speak some German but I can't translate that much text.My best suggestion would be to go to SparkNotes.com see if Miss.
Marm is still accepting questions and ask her. I asked her numerous questions when I was in school. Definetly would check it out.
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In this expressionist play which includes five acts, the names of the characters are not defined. A man with a mentally ill father finally gets tired of him and his destructive madness affecting the family, so he poisons him and accidentally poisons and unintentonally kills his mother (who is somewhat suicidal). But really, this story is about the transition of the main character through each act, the materialism of modernizing society, poverty, dispair in dealing with madness, and loneliness.
The main character is alienated by his station in life. He sees colors as symbols. .. There are many generalizations of people who work in groups as one unit instead of several separate people.
This is perhaps to illuminate who the main character, the poet, is. The silence in the play is the most telling. It is there to give a feeling of desolation and to state what the lines can not.
With its conclusion, the play reveals a sort of strange twisted manner the poet feels he has released the parents. Then, he falls into despair not being able to deal with it, and with the death of the father not being the salvation he had hoped for. He says goodbye to the same old friend who was so concerned about him in the first act and discusses parenthood with "The Girl".
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.