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The Robbers (Theatre)
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The Robbers is a drama by German playwright Friedrich Schiller. It was his first play to be printed and performed and became his breakthrough success.Franz von Moor, second son of the old count, starts an intrigue against his older brother Karl, to become the heir instead. Also, he tries to hit on Karl's Love Interest Amalia. Meanwhile Karl, with some nudge from his buddy Spiegelberg, decides to join a band of robbers and becomes their captain (he hopes to become someone who helps the weaker, like Robin Hood). Things escalate soon.You can read the English translation here. | |
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Villain's Dying Grace | |
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Villain's Dying Grace: Karl is arguably a villain, but he decides to let a poor guy with eleven children bring him (Karl) to justice, so the poor man will get the thousand gold coins which are the prize on Karl's head. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Or rather, Evil Equals Ugliness. As in the case of Franz Moor, who lampshades it when he laments his bad looks, referring in an un-PC way to his "negro lips" and "Hottentot eyes". Though it's debatable whether Franz is truly ugly or just thinks he is due to having been The Unfavorite for so many years, as other characters never refer to his looks. There are usually two ways to address this topic in different productions: Either the monologue is taken literally and the actor is turned immensely hideous, or they cast a certified Pretty Boy to show the audience just how caught up in his own psychosis Franz is. | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: Spiegelberg and his men break into a nunnery to rape the nuns. Afterwards, Spiegelberg brags how some nuns "put their cells under water". | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: Spiegelberg appears to be Jewish, being circumcised, a zionist, and bearer of a jewish sounding name. His religion is, however, never quite confirmed, and he uses some antisemitic idioms quite freely. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Franz treats Daniel, loyal old servant of the family, like shit. | |
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SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Karl starts out pretty high on the idealistic side, with Franz serving as the cynic. He does, however, lose much of his idealism over the course of the play. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Franz fakes letters from Karl and badmouthes him (accusing him to be a rapist and a killer) constantly to Amalia and their father, so that he'll disinherit Karl. | |
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We Were Your Team | |
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We Were Your Team: When Karl tries to leave the gang, the others confront him, reminding him of his Blood Oath and calling him a traitor. | |
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Would Hurt a Child | |
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Would Hurt a Child: Schufterle brags about having thrown a baby into the flames of a burning house. Karl expells him for it. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Karl confesses to his father that he's become leaders of the robbers, which kills the old man. Franz already has committed suicide. Amalia is willing to forgive Karl, but being a robber, he can't live together with her, so she begs him to kill her then, which he does. Then, Karl decides to turn himself in. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: When Roller, a member of the robbers, is caught in a city, they liberate him, burn down the city and kill 83 people. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Hermann brings food to the old count whom Franz had locked up to let him starve to death. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: The Moor brothers don't seem to have a mother. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Edelreich, Amalia's last name, consists of the German words for "noble" and "rich". Schufterle (one of the robbers) means "little scoundrel". Spiegelberg, whose name is German for "mirror mountain", mirrors Franz in many ways. | |
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I Want Them Alive! | |
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I Want Them Alive!: Karl doesn't want Franz to get killed. | |
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I Gave My Word | |
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I Gave My Word: Karl swore an oath to death to his robbers, so he can't return to a normal life. | |
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Token Evil Teammate | |
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Token Evil Teammate: At first, it seems like Spiegelberg is this. It later turns out that at least a few more robbers are just as sadist as him. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
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Parental Favoritism: Franz has always been The Unfavorite to his older, more extroverted and handsome brother Karl. | |
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Band of Brothers | |
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Band of Brothers: The robbers (or at least those loyal to Karl) soon become one of these, going out of their way to save one of their own from execution. | |
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Third-Person Person | |
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Third-Person Person: You could be forgiven to think that there must be more than one character named Spiegelberg. The man just loves to talk about himself in third person. | |
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Cross-Cast Role | |
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Cross-Cast Role: Quite a few famous productions cast an actress as one of the brothers. Franz gets this treatment far more often than Karl. | |
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Dramatis Personae | |
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Dramatis Personae: As befitting a classical drama, all characters and their positions are listed at the beginning of the play. | |
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Child by Rape | |
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Child by Rape: Spiegelberg brags how his men left the nuns "a souvenir". | |
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I Have No Son! | |
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I Have No Son!: Their father to Karl. Which makes the latter so desperate that he agrees to become a robber. | |
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Loves My Alter Ego | |
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Loves My Alter Ego: Amalia has sworn to be faithful to Karl, even after she believes him to be dead. She becomes overridden with guilt when she starts to fall for the mysterious "count Brand", not knowing that he is Karl in disguise. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
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Toxic Friend Influence: Without Spiegelberg, Karl and his friends would never have become outlaws. | |
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Last-Name Basis | |
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Last-Name Basis: The robbers among each other, to the extent that, besides Karl, Spiegelberg is the only one who even has a cannonically mentioned first name. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: The robbers sing a song at the campfire. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: Spiegelberg would have preferred to lead the robbers himself. He eventually gets killed by a loyal robber. | |
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