The Chinese Wall

You can read biography of Frisch, a synopsis, an interpretation and a character analysis of Frisch's play, The Chinese Wall.

Scene 21

The revolution is here. The leader is now Wu Tsiang, the previous dissatisfied prince, who wants to to become tyrann himself. The Contemporary exposes him as playing a new game. Mother Olan appears and complains about the her poor, tortured mute son. The Contemporary, desiring to show the people the truth that a mute boy has been wrongfully tortured, turns to her and tries in vain to have her speak the truth that her son is mute. The old woman, however, insists that she is proud of her mute son being able to spreading the sayings against the emperor.
With this, Frisch shows us his deeply pessimistic "world theater" in his The Chinese Wall.

Other Scenes

[Prologue] [Scene 1][Scene 2][Scene 3][Scene 4][Scene 5][Scene 6][Scene 7][Scene 8][Scene 10][Scene 11][Scene 12][Scene 13][Scene 14][Scene 15][Scene 16][Scene 17][Scene 18][Scene 19][Scene 20][Scene 21][Scene 22][Scene 23][Scene 24]