HUMN 3470 Study Guide - Final Guide: Max Frisch, Identity Crisis, Michael Berg
23 Jul 2018
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The play presents a sequence of 24 scenes of how living under nazi rule was. Citizens lived in fear and with anxiety as they went about their day to day lives. The man outside describes the hopelessness of a post- war soldier (beckmann) who returns from russia to find that he has lost his wife and his home to another man. Every possible opening he comes across gets shut in his face. The play ends with what is assumed to be beckmann"s suicide in the elbe river. Andri lives with the teacher, who told everybody in the. Andri was a jewish child rescued from across the border. Andri is secretly engaged to barblin, the daughter of the teacher. As the play progresses, we learn that andri is the. The play ends with andri being taken away by the. The book goes back and forth from the present time period to the past.
