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felixharrowgate @ 2008-12-08T02: 11:00

title: The do-gooders
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Language: German
Genre: Drama
Genre: "Comedy"
of creation: 1979
period: - -

5 Scenes .

- all filled mainly by the monologue of the world a better place. It is not always clear and probably not important whether he speaks to his wife with no name and is also in the whole piece never called by any name. It is only a woman any woman, the type of woman and the woman holding the world a better place if he has also never married. He is bossy, moody, egocentric, ill or sickly. It is the day on which he is to receive an honorary doctorate. A dr. hc. So. At his request, this does not happen at the university but at his home. It protects against the disease-related weakness, it is likely that his misanthropy and his boundless self-will have their rise to that desire.

The first 4 scenes be covered by the do-gooders and his wife, who he sends to and fro. the silent and mostly does what is commanded you, if not always immediately. Slowly opened the reader why is the do-gooders, do-gooders - he wrote a treatise by is what should be done to the world as it is to make a better place to be able to. No one - so the views of the world a better place - in the sense of this treatise, nevertheless it has attracted attention all over the world, was translated into many languages and it has been the trigger for the collection of the world a better place to Dr. hc. The woman running repeatedly between the living room and another room (not belonging to the stage area) back and forth. Constant monologue of do-gooders. Comedy produced by the permanent break between his serious speeches, his misanthropy and his contempt and his sudden appearance of physical ailments and infirmities, and of what he would like to eat today. Sometimes it is too cold, too stuffy. And keep coming back, the woman and sent him everything he wants it, and he contradicts himself often, imperious, then his harsh words back takes.

In the 5th Finally, connect the scene Rector, the dean, the professor and the mayor on. He received his diploma, monologue continued unmoved. The guests go. There is a sequel. The reformers concluded with the words: "My pasta / bored / Now I want to eat the noodles."

Quotes:

"gooder: See the map / D woman he gives him the card / gooders reads the card and gives it her back / I hate flowers / also Chancellor flowers / The woman waters the roses a / I'm going to the Lords / Say you see these gentlemen roses / the Registrar / What do you say / We must not forget / these people to keep only the shortest time / If they have set themselves / and if it is safest / feel they are already / fallen under the table / The Chancellor has not said a word of truth / History digested all these people / The greatest monster / the greatest atrocities / has History already digested / History has a good chopped, stomach / whispers / Perhaps Pastry / With a little ham / "( pieces 3 2006 p.153) (emphasis by me -. Although syntactically the "talk is based on the Chancellor can not escape the thought that watered roses" only the shortest time [hold] a semantic game?)

"Twenty years / we play this game / it disgusts me before / but I want to play there / With you / because I am with anyone / loathe so much" ( Stü ; Bridge 3 2006 p.157)

"The world is a sewer / from which an approaching it stinks / This sewer is cleared / That is also the contents of my treatise / But if we totally eliminate the sewer / she is empty "( pieces 3 1988 p.166) (emphasis by me -. Again with the play of semantics of "content" which related to syntatkischer level on the treatise -> can also think of the contents of the cloaca, which is to be "cleared")

"This Geschmacksungeschicklichkeit (. pieces 3 2006 p.172)

It is likely that the name "of the do-gooders" and also its character as allusions to the main character from Raymond's "King of the Alps and human enemy" can be interpreted. As the further helps in the interpretation of the play, I'm still unclear. It is Bernard left in any case in a tradition and that in the Viennese comedy. A parallel here that imposes and perhaps also could be hermeneutic in continued, is the Vienna that both in comedy and in Bernard's pieces, we are dealing only with rare characters who are psychologically motivated act. Rather, it is both theatrical forms Types, figures indicate that not a living, natural inner life can be said. An artificial distinguishes the figures, both in their actions - often automated and mechanical work - and in their speech and reaction, or rather DO NOT react to the surrounding characters, with whom they come, always in interaction, but With all the great monologue wealth of language, or rather voice waste - have nothing to say to each other. When Bernard is this inability to do this or not do, or the inability to understand or rather never understood the attempt made to or / can / should accessible to an absolute often in death (murder or suicide) ending barren model also. When it comes to the Viennese comedy as unmotivated classic comedy circuit. All are reconciled - more or less randomly, because it is the comedy so will - and it is married.

furthermore there is a band of Herman Hesse of the title "The do-gooders" with. Know the text does not, unfortunately.

noticed: the stethoscope, the mice / rats, mouse trap, Switzerland - the place of humiliation, hate do-gooders, Switzerland