Die Räuber
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The core of the plot is a conflict between the two brothers Karl and Franz Moorland. On one side stands the intelligent and liberal soon-to-be- Karl, loved by their father; on the other, the coldly calculating Franz, who is jealous of Karl and wants their father's inheritance. Franz also suffers from an immense deficit of affection. The central motive Schiller brings up for discussion is the conflict between law and liberty. Likewise, the plot often reminds one of the proverb "the end does not justify the means". Verdi's opera of the same name, I masnadieri, is based on Schiller's work.
Contents
Act I
Scene 1
The castle of the von Moors in Franconias, a thesis of the literature scientist Werner von Stransky Stranka Stransky-Stranka-Greifenfels from the year 1998 in the today's Middle Franconian municipality Muhr at the lake is appropriate.
- Persons: Franz, Old Moorland
Scene 2
- Place: Give at the borders of Saxonia
- Persons: Karl, Spiegelberg, Schweizer, Grimm, Roller, Schufterle, Razman, Schwarz
Scene 3
- place: In the Moori lock, Amalias room
Franz tries to make Karl bad with Amalia which shows it first its dislike clearly. He flatters himself with it in, tells it then, Karl pawned and is destroyed its friendship ring of its Lastern nearly. On Amalias objection, then can have become impossible Karl, explains it, it has to examine everything invented around its loyalty: Karl asked it to worry for it if it is dead. But straight this statement makes Amalia safe that Franz lied. She hunts it of it.
Act II
Scene 1
- place: In the Moori lock, room of Franz
Franz tells Hermann to tell Old Moorland that Karl is dead. But it Franz Amalias hand promises. Hermann consents, because Franz schuert sent Hermanns rage on Karl, who is to it debt that Hermann received a refusal from Amalia.
Scene 2
- place: In the Moori lock, bedroom of Old Moorland
Scene 3
- place: The Boehmischen forests
Act III
Scene 1
- place: In the Moori lock, garden
Franz continues around the hand Amalias, the loving of Karl. When she refuses, he tries to force her, and Amalia toys with the thought of going into a cloister. She quickly gives up this thought, however, when Hermann confesses that both Karl and the old count are still alive.
Scene 2
- place: Area at the Danube
The robbers in the forest have won the fight against the supremacy. Kosinsky, who went through a similar fate as Karl, is taken up to the gang of robbers. Practical way is called the unfortunate love of Kosinsky also Amalia. Karl is reminded thereby of the homeland and would like to go back to Amalia. He instructs his men to follow him.
Act IV
Scene 1
- place: rural area around the Moor castle
Karl Arrives home and kisses his native soil. Memories of his childhood and youth are awakened at the sight of this familiar environment. He enters the castle in disguise as Count Brand.
Scene 2
- place: Gallery in the castle
Amalia accompanies the disguised Karl into the gallery of ancestors, but does not recognize him. Franz, however, recognizes Karl and demands that the old servant Daniel kill Karl. Daniel, however, who is deeply religious, doesn't want to burden his conscience with murder.
Scene 3
- place: Room in the Moor castle
Karl learns from Daniel about the plotting of his brother. He would like to see Amalia again, and then intends to leave the lock without a thought of revenge.
Scene 4
- place: In the Moor castle, garden
Scene 5
- place: Near convenient forest
When the band is once again together, Spiegelberg is unsure of the position of the captain; he expresses his wish to lead the group himself, and Schweizer strangles him for that. Later at night, Hermann arrives in the forest to bring his father food. Karl sees this, recognizes his father, and frees him, although he himself is not recognized. He tells Schweizer to get Franz out of the castle and thereby to avenge his father.
Act V
Scene 1
- place: In the Moori lock
Franz has a nightmare of the recent court and gets death panic. When he realizes he can still hear Schweizer's voice, he strangles himself. Schweizer, who can no longer fulfill the order to bring Franz alive, shoots himself.
Scene 2
- place: Near convenient forest
Dramatis Personae
Karl Moorland
Karl Moorland is a self-confident idealist. He is good-looking and well-liked by all. His emotions and impulses are rather feminine in nature (his feelings of deep love for Amalia, his general melancholy). Together with his gang of robbers, he fights against the unfairness and corruption of the feudal authorities, and in doing so, also becomes a disgraceful criminal and murderous arsonist, while he believes his father to have banished him from his home after supposedly disgracing their family name. His love for Amalia and his offended homeland believes itself. This despair leads to the urge to express and discover new goals/directions, those his ideals and dreams of heroes correspond themselves. He offends against laws, for as he says, the end justifies the means. He develops a close connection to his robbers, especially to Scooter and Schweizer, but recognizes in the process the unscrupulousness and dishonor of Spiegelberg and his other associates. He is not an honest robber, that its Schandtaten admits as it to recognize must that his father it would not defame to forgive and also Amalie such a Mordbuben like him, develops a deep internal twist, since he swore himself to his robbers at the same time from them to never separate and Schweizer and Scooter died only for him. Despaired if he calls the blood tariff in, father and loving kills and decides to turn himself in to the law, which shows that he is good in the reason of the heart.
Franz Moorland
Franz Moorland is an egoistic rationalist and materialist. He is feelingless and cold. He is rather ugly and unpopular, as opposed to his brother Karl, but he is quite intelligent and cunning. He is not purely bad, but his father loved only his brother and not him. From this he developed a lack of feeling, which made the "sinful world" intolerable to his passions, and he fixed himself due to this on a rationalistic kind of thinking. In the character of Franz, Schiller demonstrates what could happen if the moral way of thinking were finally replaced by the purely rational. He strives for power in order to be able to implement his interests.Amalia of noble realm
Amalia is Karl's love. To its relationship see sucked. "Hektorlied". you is a faithful and reliable person. But so it is also again not reliable: Their uncertainty tells itself, when it believes Franz first, as it tries it against Karl to apply (see ring, sword).Maximilian Moorland
Maximilian Moorland is the beloved father of Karl and Franz (also "Old Moorland" mentioned). He is a good person at heart, but is weak and has failed to educate his two sons; he is thus responsible for the perversion of the Moorland family. Because of this failure, family values are purged and invalid. Thus the Moorland family is representative of the State, a typical political criticism of Schiller's; the prince as a national father is particularly condemned.Spiegelberg
Spiegelberg acts as an opponent of Karl Moorland - contrary to this it is propelled from the crime as such, in addition it was appointed on Karl's robber captain posts, there it, against its expectation, not even the robber captain is envious. It makes Karl bad in addition with the robbers, in order to become robber captain, which does not succeed to it however.
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