Wyspianski "The Wedding"

Lots of history and art is referenced in the play that is one of Poland's greatest drama's ever written. 9 He is considered to have been a part of yound Poland. 12 He oppossed new romanticism and the cult of the bards. 13 The play is a satire on society and the manners in the beginning. The wedding is only the frame for the play. it is really a play about Crakow and the cultural center of poland and the writers view of Poland. There are many allusions to Dante and the tale of a descent into a kind of Polish Hell where the tortures are the myths of history and literature. 14 The play also plays on the szopka - a Polish puppet show. The play also uses Mickeiwiecz' Dziady to a great degree.16 There is a Jew and talk of nationality and also a woman, rachel, the daughter of the Jew that is said to be a modern woman. 50 Many people at a wedding dancing and hitting on each other with poetry. A man Czeric fights with others. The young girls just want to dance with the groomsmen. the poet is trying to get with everyone. Scene 7 Journalist and Stanczyk talk rot about all kinds of things national and not. 99 The journalist then talks to the Poet and then the Poet to the Knight and at the end of it each want the other to hold his hand and the other comes out sad. The poet is now sad and thinks that his work is no good. 106 Then some ghosts come for the wedding and the beggar tries to scare them off. 112 Wernohora tells the host that he will have to set forth and mobilize the people and so the host decides to do this. the host had seen Wernyhora only in a dream the day before and now he stands in front of him. 133 The bride married a man outside her class - above her and now everyone is telling her that she will miss the country and her father. She doesn't have that much to talk about with her husband so she cannot even imagine what they will talk about or how their life will end up. 155 The poet asks the bride if she knows where and what Poland is and she answers that she doesn't know, but he tells her that it is in her heart. The revolt is rising, but the host, the man who headed the call from Warnyherna doesn't remember it from the night before. The men are gathered outside and Czerpiec is mad nothing is happening. The bride tries to get everyone to calm down, the groom doesn't understand what is happening. 180 They all gather and the host remember what happened the night before and what he needs to do, but he lost the horn and is left listening for the cock to crow. Janciek lost the horn, but the chochiol comes to him and tells him to take their scyths and guns and leave them dance while the chochiol plays the violin and mesmerizing them with music. 195 the cock crows, but no one hears it because of the music. 198