The Awakening of Spring, a Tragedy of Childhood (Classic Reprint)

Vl boys or girls, in ignorance otheir sexual nature is the thesis of Frank Wedekind sdrama Friihlin Erwachen. From its title one might suppose it a peaceful little idyl of the youth of the year. No idea could be more mistaken. It is a tragedy, jof.frightfid import, and its action is concerned with the development of natural instincts in the adolescent of both sexes. ,..TL a jywri ght has attackedbis theme with European frankness; but of plot, in the usual acceptance of the term, there is little. Instead of the coherent drama of conventional type, Wedekind has given us a series of loosely connected scenes illuminative of character scenes which surely have profound significance for all occupied in the training of the young. He sets before us a group of school children, lads and lassies just past the age of puberty, and shows logically that death and degradation may be their lot as the outcome of parental reticence. They are not vicious children, but little ones such as we meet every day, imaginative beings living in a world of youthful ideals and speculating about the mysteries which surround them.
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