Okay but does Melchior kill himself at the end of the musical or have I been misinterpreting the end of that scene this whole time?
HelpHe doesn’t, those you’ve known is him making the decision to live and carry the memory of Moritz and Wendla with him
Yeah I thought that also but then there’s the bit right at the end when everyone else walks off stage and he walks into what I’ve been interpreting as heaven w Moritz and Wendla
I guess that could also be interpreted as everyone else simply leaving and putting the past behind them, while he stays kinda stuck on what happened
Some of this musical is so aggressively literal and then some of it is so damn metaphorical it’s almost as bad as the bible for that lmao
Yeah that’s fair lmao
I’ve always seen that as like. He’s found them in purple summer because he’s chosen not to forget them and they walk off together because they’re still with him
Yeah, that makes sense.
I kinda wonder if it was just intentionally left open to interpretation but idk
Yeah idk
Honestly though Sater really likes Melchior I don’t think he’d kill him
I interpret that bit in dwsa with the walking into heaven as like… a glimpse into the future? like after a better world is created he can join them
and in the play he rejects Moritz’s plea to join him in death and while Sater cut out or changed most of that scene I think the idea of choosing not to kill himself transfers over
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