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Teen Monologue: Spring's Awakening

Melchior and Moritz, teenage classmates, are talking in Melchior's study on an evening. Moritz tells Melchior a nonsense story his dead grandmother used to tell him about a beautiful Queen who was born without a head. In the story, a King with two heads that constantly argued marries the headless Queen and sets one of his heads on her body so they can live happily ever after. Moritz says he hasn't been able to stop thinking about the headless Queen since vacation started and now sees pretty girls and himself as headless. He worries someone may be set over him as well.

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Teen Monologue: Spring's Awakening

Melchior and Moritz, teenage classmates, are talking in Melchior's study on an evening. Moritz tells Melchior a nonsense story his dead grandmother used to tell him about a beautiful Queen who was born without a head. In the story, a King with two heads that constantly argued marries the headless Queen and sets one of his heads on her body so they can live happily ever after. Moritz says he hasn't been able to stop thinking about the headless Queen since vacation started and now sees pretty girls and himself as headless. He worries someone may be set over him as well.

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SPRING’S AWAKENING

by Frank Wedekind

EXT: EVENING IN MELCHIOR'S STUDY. THE WINDOW IS OPEN, A


LAMP BURNS ON THE TABLE.

MELCHIOR and MORITZ, teenage classmates, are talking on the


divan.

MORITZ

The leaves whisper so busily.——It's


just as if I heard my dead grandmother
telling me the story of the “Queen
Without a Head.” There was once a
wonderfully beautiful Queen, beautiful
as the sun, more beautiful than all the
maidens in the country. Only,
unfortunately, she came into the world
without a head. She could not eat, not
drink, not kiss. She could only
communicate with her courtiers by using
her soft little hand. With her dainty
feet she stamped declarations of war
and orders for executions. Then, one
day, she was besieged by a King, who,
by chance, had two heads, which, year
in and year out, disputed with one
another so violently that neither could
get a word in edgewise. The Court
Conjurer-in-chief took off the smallest
of these heads and set it upon the
Queen's body. And, behold, it became
her extraordinarily well! Therefore,
the King and the Queen were married,
and the two heads disputed no longer,
but kissed each other upon the brow,
the cheeks and the mouth, and lived
thereafter through long, long years of
joy and peace.——Delectable nonsense!
Since vacation I can't get the headless
Queen out of my mind. When I see a
pretty girl, I see her without a head——
and then presently, I, myself appear to

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(CONT.)
be the headless Queen.——It is possible
that someone may be set over me yet.

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