This drama was created by Schiller in 1871. "The Robbers", a brief summary of which is offered to your attention, became the starting point in the development of the German robber novel. The action of the work takes place in Germany during the time when Schiller himself lived. “The Robbers,” a brief summary of which we will consider, is a drama based on which D. Verdi wrote an opera of the same name.
The news about Karl's dissolute life
The action of the work begins in the family castle, where the barons von Moor live: the father, Franz (the youngest son), and Amalie von Edelreich (the bride of the eldest son and the count's pupil). The author talks about how Franz received a letter from a solicitor from Leipzig. The lawyer asks him for advice about the dissolute life of Count Karl von Moor's eldest son. This young man is a student at the University of Leipzig. The old man, saddened by the letter, allows his son to write to Charles and report that the count is angry and is depriving him of his inheritance and parental blessing.
Karl decides to become a robber
Meanwhile, students gather in a tavern located on the border with Saxony. This is their usual meeting place. Karl is awaiting an answer to a letter to his father, in which he repents of his dissolute life and promises to get busy. Spiegelberg, his friend, is killing time with Karl. He says that robbery is better than living in poverty. Karl receives a letter from von Moor. After reading it, the young man becomes desperate. Spiegelberg, meanwhile, talks about how great it would be to live in Bohemian forests. You can take money from rich travelers and spend it. This thought occupies poor students. However, they need an ataman. Despite the fact that Spiegelberg is counting on this position, everyone unanimously decides to elect Karl as chieftain. Hoping that thanks to such a life he will forget his daughter-in-law, father and his past, the young man takes an oath of allegiance to the robbers who swear allegiance to him.
Franz's machinations
Further, Schiller describes Franz's machinations ("The Robbers"). Their summary is as follows. After Franz expels his eldest son from the heart of his father, he wants to denigrate Karl in the eyes of Amalia, his bride. He informs the girl that the diamond ring she gave to her lover before leaving was given to a libertine who had nothing to pay for the services. Franz draws a portrait of a sick beggar dressed in rags in front of the girl. “Deadly sickness” reeks from his mouth. This is exactly what her beloved Karl is now. However, it is not so easy to convince a loving heart. Amalia does not believe Franz and drives him away.
Then a new plan to realize his dream matures in Franz’s head (to become the owner of the von Moor inheritance). The young man persuades Herman, the bastard son of a local nobleman, to do this. He must change clothes and go to the old man, saying that he saw Karl die. His son allegedly took part in the battle of Prague. It is unlikely that the heart of the sick count will be able to withstand such sad news. For this, Franz promises Hermann to give him Amalia, whom Karl von Moor once took from him.
"Death" of the Count
Everything happens according to the plan that Franz planned to implement from the drama, authored by Friedrich Schiller ("The Robbers"). We have already briefly described the contents of this plan. The photo above is a portrait of Schiller.
The Count talks with Amalia, remembers his eldest son. Here Herman appears in disguise. The young man reports that Karl was left without a livelihood, so he had to participate in the Prussian-Austrian campaign. He died heroically in Bohemia, where the war had thrown him. Dying, Charles allegedly asked to give his sword to his father, as well as to return the portrait of Amalia and her oath of allegiance. The old man blames himself for the death of his son. However, he notices the joy on Franz’s face and begins to understand that he is to blame for all of Karl’s misfortunes. The Count loses consciousness, leaning back on the pillows. Franz thinks that he is dead, and this makes him happy.
Life of Ataman Karl
Meanwhile, in the Bohemian forests, the eldest son of the Count, Karl, the hero of the drama created by F. Schiller ("The Robbers"), is robbing. A summary should be made by saying a few words about his life in the forest. This young man is brave. He loves to play with death, because he has completely lost interest in life. The chieftain gives his spoils to the orphans. He punishes the rich who rob ordinary people. Karl says that his trade is revenge, and his craft is retribution.
Franz rules the castle
Karl decides to visit his castle
Together with the gang, the eldest son of the count finds himself surrounded by Bohemian dragoons. However, Charles’s men manage to escape, paying for it with the life of only one fighter (the dragoons lost about 300 people). A Czech nobleman asks to join Charles’s squad. He lost his fortune and his beloved, whose name is Amalia. In Karl's soul, this man's story evokes some memories. He is going to go to Franconia with his gang.
The young man, introducing himself as Count von Brand, enters his own family castle. Here he meets Amalia and sees that she is faithful to the “dead Karl.” Among the portraits of his ancestors presented in the gallery, he notices a portrait of his father. Karl stops next to him and stealthily wipes away a tear. No one will recognize the count's eldest son. Only Franz, who sees everything and constantly suspects everyone, guesses that Karl is a guest. However, he does not tell anyone about his guesses. Franz forces Daniel, the old butler, to swear an oath that he will kill the arriving count. However, Daniel recognizes him as Karl from the scar on his hand. He cannot lie to the old servant who raised him. But now Charles must leave the castle forever. Before leaving, he decides to see Amalia. The girl experiences feelings for him, such as she previously had only with Karl von Moor. However, Amalia does not recognize him, and the guest says goodbye to his beloved.
Karl finds his father
He returns to the robbers. They must leave these places in the morning. In the meantime, Karl is walking through the forest. He stumbles upon a tower in the dark and hears a voice. It was Herman who arrived to feed the locked prisoner. Karl tears the locks off the tower and frees his father, withered like a skeleton. It turns out that the count, unfortunately, did not die from the news that Herman brought. In the coffin he came to his senses. Then Franz, secretly from everyone, imprisoned his father in a tower, dooming him to loneliness, hunger and cold. After listening to his father's story, Karl decided to take revenge. Despite the family ties that connected him with Franz, he ordered the robbers to seize his younger brother and bring him to him alive.
Franz's conversation with the pastor, Franz's death
Are you interested in knowing how the summary will continue? We have described “The Robbers” (Schiller) chapter by chapter only in general terms, but we will now outline the further main events.
Daniel, the old valet, says goodbye to the castle at night. He lived here all his life. Franz enters with a candle in his hand. He's worried. Franz saw the Last Judgment in a dream. For his sins he was sent to the underworld. Franz begs Daniel to call the pastor. He considered himself an atheist all his life, and even now he is arguing with the visiting priest on religious topics. However, this time he does not manage to laugh at the argument about the immortality of the soul with the same ease. Franz, having received confirmation from the priest that parricide and fratricide are the most serious sins, is frightened. He suddenly realizes that his soul cannot escape hell.
The robbers sent by Charles attack the castle. They set it on fire, but Franz cannot be captured. He strangles himself using a hat lace.
Death of Amalia
Schiller's drama "The Robbers" is already approaching its finale. The gang members, having carried out the order, return to the forest, where Karl is waiting for them, still not recognized by his father. Amalia comes with them. She rushes to Moor, hugs him and calls him groom. The Count learns who the leader of the bandits, murderers and thieves is. Having learned about this, he dies. However, Amalia forgives her lover. She is ready to start a new life with him. But love is hampered by the fact that Moore swore an oath of allegiance to the robbers. Realizing that she cannot be happy without Karl, the girl asks for death. And Moore stabs her to death.
Karl surrenders to the authorities
Friedrich Schiller ("The Robbers") prepared for us a spectacular finale. A summary of Karl's later life is as follows. He drank his cup to the bottom and realized that the world cannot be corrected by atrocities, and his life is over. And he surrenders to the hands of justice. Karl, on the way to his castle, talked with a poor man with a large family. Now he is going to him so that he will hand over the “famous robber” to the authorities and receive a thousand louis for his head.
This is where Schiller ends his drama. "The Robbers", a brief summary of which we have described, is one of the most interesting works in his work.
The action takes place in Germany, contemporary to the author of the play. The plot unfolds over two years. The drama is preceded by an epigraph from Hippocrates, which in Russian translation reads like this: “What medicine does not heal, iron heals; What iron does not heal, fire heals.”
The plot is based on a family tragedy. In the family castle of the barons von Moor live the father, the youngest son Franz and the count's pupil, the eldest son's fiancée, Amalia von Edelreich. The beginning is a letter allegedly received by Franz from a “Leipzig correspondent”, which tells about the dissolute life of Karl von Moor, the count’s eldest son, who is at the university in Leipzig. Old man von Moor, saddened by the bad news, allows Franz to write a letter to Karl and inform him that the count, angry with the behavior of his eldest son, is depriving him of his inheritance and his parental blessing.
At this time, in Leipzig, in the tavern where students of the University of Leipzig usually gather, Karl von Moor is waiting for an answer to his letter to his father, in which he sincerely repents of his dissolute life and promises to continue to do business. A letter arrives from the Gem forests, asking them to take money from rich travelers and put it into circulation. The poor students find this idea tempting, but they need an ataman, and although Spiegelberg himself was counting on this position, everyone unanimously chooses Karl von Moor. Hoping that “blood and death” will make him forget his former life, his father, his bride, Karl takes an oath of allegiance to his robbers, and they, in turn, swear allegiance to him.
Now that Franz von Moor has managed to expel his older brother from his father’s loving heart, he is trying to denigrate him in the eyes of his fiancée, Amalia. In particular, he tells her that the diamond ring she gave to Karl before separation as a pledge of fidelity, he gave to the libertine when he no longer had anything to pay for his love pleasures. He draws in front of Amalia a portrait of a sickly beggar in rags, from whose mouth he smells of “deadly sickness” - this is her beloved Karl now. But it’s not so easy to convince a loving heart; Amalia refuses to believe Franz and drives him away.
But a new plan has already matured in Franz von Moor’s head, which will finally help him realize his dream of becoming the owner of the inheritance of the Counts von Moor. To do this, he persuades the illegitimate son of one local nobleman, Herman, to change clothes and, coming to the old man Moor, report that he witnessed the death of Charles, who took part in the battle of Prague. The sick count's heart is unlikely to withstand this terrible news. For this, Franz promises Hermann to return to him Amalia von Edelreich, who was once taken from him by Karl von Moor.
This is how it all happens. Old Man Moore remembers his eldest son with Amalia. At this time, Herman appears in disguise. He talks about Karl, left without any means of subsistence, and therefore decided to take part in the Prussian-Austrian campaign. The war took him to Bohemia, where he died heroically. Dying, he asked to hand over his sword to his father, and to return the portrait of Amalia to her along with her oath of allegiance. Count von Moor blames himself for his son's death, he leans back on his pillows, and his heart seems to stop. Franz rejoices at the long-awaited death of his father.
Meanwhile, Karl von Moor is robbing the Bohemian forests. He is brave and often plays with death, as he has lost interest in life. The ataman gives his share of the spoils to the orphans. He punishes the rich who rob ordinary people, following the principle: “My craft is retribution, revenge is my trade.”
And in the family castle of von Moor, Franz rules. He achieved his goal, but does not feel satisfied: Amalia still refuses to become his wife. Hermann, who realized that Franz had deceived him, reveals to the ladies-in-waiting von Edelreich a “terrible secret” - Karl von Moor is alive and old man von Moor is too.
Karl and his gang are surrounded by Bohemian dragoons, but they manage to escape from it at the cost of the death of only one soldier, while the Bohemian soldiers lost about 300 people. A Czech nobleman who has lost all his fortune, as well as his beloved, whose name is Amalia, asks to join von Moor’s detachment. The story of the young man stirred up old memories in Karl’s soul, and he decides to lead his gang to Franconia with the words: “I must see her!”
Under the name of Count von Brand from Mecklenburg, Karl enters his ancestral castle. He meets his Amalia and is convinced that she is faithful to the “deceased Karl.” In the gallery, among the portraits of his ancestors, he stops at the portrait of his father and furtively wipes away a tear. No one recognizes the count's eldest son, only the all-seeing and always suspicious Franz guesses that his elder brother is visiting, but does not tell anyone about his guesses. The younger von Moor forces his old butler Daniel to swear an oath that he will kill the visiting count. By the scar on his hand, the butler recognizes Count von Brande as Karl; he is unable to lie to the old servant who raised him, but now he must hurry to leave the castle forever. Before disappearing, he still decides to see Amalia, who is experiencing feelings for the count that she previously had associated with only one person - Karl von Moor. The unrecognized guest says goodbye to the ladies-in-waiting.
Karl returns to his robbers, in the morning they will leave these places, and while he is wandering through the forest, in the darkness he hears a voice and sees a tower. It was Herman who came stealthily to feed the prisoner locked here. Karl tears the locks off the tower and frees the old man, withered like a skeleton. the prisoner turns out to be the old man von Moor, who, unfortunately, did not die then from the news brought by Hermann, but when he came to his senses in a coffin, his son Franz secretly imprisoned him in this tower from the people, dooming him to cold, hunger and loneliness . Karl, having listened to the story of his father, is unable to endure any longer and, despite the family ties that connect him with Franz, orders his robbers to break into the castle, capture his brother and bring him here alive.
Night. The old valet Daniel says goodbye to the castle where he spent his whole life. Franz von Moor runs in in a dressing gown with a candle in his hand. He cannot calm down; he had a dream about the Last Judgment, in which he is sent to hell for his sins. He begs Daniel to send for the pastor. All his life, Franz was an atheist, and even now he cannot reconcile with the new pastor and is trying to conduct a debate on religious topics. This time he fails to laugh at the thesis about the immortality of the soul with his usual ease. Having received confirmation from the pastor that the most serious sins of a person are fratricide and parricide, Franz is frightened and realizes that his soul cannot escape hell.
The castle is attacked by robbers sent by Karl, they set the castle on fire, but they fail to capture Franz. In fear, he strangles himself with his hat cord.
The gang members who carried out the order return to the forest near the castle, where Karl is waiting for them, never recognized by his father. Amalia comes with them, rushes to the robber Moor, hugs him and calls him her fiancé. Then, in horror, old Moor recognizes his beloved eldest son Karl in the leader of these bandits, thieves and murderers and dies. But Amalia is ready to forgive her lover and start a new life with him. But their love is hampered by the oath of allegiance given by Moor to his robbers. Realizing that happiness is impossible, Amalia prays for only one thing - death. Karl stabs her to death.
The robber Moor drank his cup to the end, he realized that the world cannot be corrected by atrocities, his life is over, he decides to surrender to the hands of justice. Even on the way to the Moor castle, he talked with a poor man who has a large family, now Karl goes to him so that he, having handed over the “famous robber” to the authorities, would receive a thousand louis for his head.
The action takes place in Germany, contemporary to the author of the play. The plot unfolds over two years. The drama is preceded by an epigraph from Hippocrates, which in Russian translation reads like this: “What medicine does not heal, iron heals; What iron does not heal, fire heals.”
The plot is based on a family tragedy. In the family castle of the barons von Moor live the father, the youngest son Franz and the count's pupil, the eldest son's fiancée, Amalia von Edelreich. The beginning is a letter allegedly received by Franz from a “Leipzig correspondent”, which tells about the dissolute life of Karl von Moor, the count’s eldest son, who is at the university in Leipzig. Old man von Moor, saddened by the bad news, allows Franz to write a letter to Karl and inform him that the count, angry with the behavior of his eldest son, is depriving him of his inheritance and his parental blessing.
At this time, in Leipzig, in the tavern where students of the University of Leipzig usually gather, Karl von Moor is waiting for an answer to his letter to his father, in which he sincerely repents of his dissolute life and promises to continue to do business. A letter arrives about the Bohemian forests, taking money from rich travelers and putting it into circulation. The poor students find this idea tempting, but they need an ataman, and although Spiegelberg himself was counting on this position, everyone unanimously chooses Karl von Moor. Hoping that “blood and death” will make him forget his former life, his father, his bride, Karl takes an oath of allegiance to his robbers, and they, in turn, swear allegiance to him.
Now that Franz von Moor has managed to expel his older brother from his father’s loving heart, he is trying to denigrate him in the eyes of his fiancée, Amalia. In particular, he tells her that the diamond ring she gave to Karl before separation as a pledge of fidelity, he gave to the libertine when he no longer had anything to pay for his love pleasures. He draws in front of Amalia a portrait of a sickly beggar in rags, from whose mouth he smells of “deadly sickness” - this is her beloved Karl now. But it’s not so easy to convince a loving heart; Amalia refuses to believe Franz and drives him away.
But a new plan has already matured in Franz von Moor’s head, which will finally help him realize his dream of becoming the owner of the inheritance of the Counts von Moor. To do this, he persuades the illegitimate son of one local nobleman, Herman, to change clothes and, coming to the old man Moor, report that he witnessed the death of Charles, who took part in the battle of Prague. The sick count's heart is unlikely to withstand this terrible news. For this, Franz promises Hermann to return to him Amalia von Edelreich, who was once taken from him by Karl von Moor.
This is how it all happens. Old Man Moore remembers his eldest son with Amalia. At this time, Herman appears in disguise. He talks about Karl, left without any means of subsistence, and therefore decided to take part in the Prussian-Austrian campaign. The war took him to Bohemia, where he died heroically. Dying, he asked to hand over his sword to his father, and to return the portrait of Amalia to her along with her oath of allegiance. Count von Moor blames himself for his son's death, he leans back on his pillows, and his heart seems to stop. Franz rejoices at the long-awaited death of his father.
Meanwhile, Karl von Moor is robbing the Bohemian forests. He is brave and often plays with death, as he has lost interest in life. The ataman gives his share of the spoils to the orphans. He punishes the rich who rob ordinary people, following the principle: “My craft is retribution, revenge is my trade.”
And in the family castle of von Moor, Franz rules. He achieved his goal, but does not feel satisfied: Amalia still refuses to become his wife. Hermann, who realized that Franz had deceived him, reveals to the ladies-in-waiting von Edelreich a “terrible secret” - Karl von Moor is alive and old man von Moor is too.
Karl and his gang are surrounded by Bohemian dragoons, but they manage to escape from it at the cost of the death of only one soldier, while the Bohemian soldiers lost about 300 people. A Czech nobleman who has lost all his fortune, as well as his beloved, whose name is Amalia, asks to join von Moor’s detachment. The story of the young man stirred up old memories in Karl’s soul, and he decides to lead his gang to Franconia with the words: “I must see her!”
Under the name of Count von Brand from Mecklenburg, Karl enters his ancestral castle. He meets his Amalia and is convinced that she is faithful to the “deceased Karl.” In the gallery, among the portraits of his ancestors, he stops at the portrait of his father and furtively wipes away a tear. No one recognizes the count's eldest son, only the all-seeing and always suspicious Franz guesses that his elder brother is visiting, but does not tell anyone about his guesses. The younger von Moor forces his old butler Daniel to swear an oath that he will kill the visiting count. By the scar on his hand, the butler recognizes Count von Brande as Karl; he is unable to lie to the old servant who raised him, but now he must hurry to leave the castle forever. Before disappearing, he still decides to see Amalia, who is experiencing feelings for the count that she previously had associated with only one person - Karl von Moor. The unrecognized guest says goodbye to the ladies-in-waiting.
Karl returns to his robbers, in the morning they will leave these places, and while he is wandering through the forest, in the darkness he hears a voice and sees a tower. It was Herman who came stealthily to feed the prisoner locked here. Karl tears the locks off the tower and frees the old man, withered like a skeleton. The prisoner turns out to be the old man von Moor, who, unfortunately, did not die then from the news brought by Hermann, but when he came to his senses in a coffin, his son Franz secretly imprisoned him in this tower from the people, dooming him to cold, hunger and loneliness . Karl, having listened to the story of his father, is unable to endure any longer and, despite the family ties that connect him with Franz, orders his robbers to break into the castle, capture his brother and bring him here alive.
Robbers
Friedrich Schiller
Robbers
The action takes place in Germany, contemporary to the author of the play. The plot unfolds over two years. The drama is preceded by an epigraph from Hippocrates, which in Russian translation reads like this: “What medicine does not heal, iron heals; What iron does not heal, fire heals.”
The plot is based on a family tragedy. In the family castle of the barons von Moor live the father, the youngest son Franz and the count's pupil, the eldest son's fiancée, Amalia von Edelreich. The beginning is a letter allegedly received by Franz from a “Leipzig correspondent”, which tells about the dissolute life of Karl von Moor, the count’s eldest son, who is at the university in Leipzig. Old man von Moor, saddened by the bad news, allows Franz to write a letter to Karl and inform him that the count, angry with the behavior of his eldest son, is depriving him of his inheritance and his parental blessing.
At this time, in Leipzig, in the tavern where students of the University of Leipzig usually gather, Karl von Moor is waiting for an answer to his letter to his father, in which he sincerely repents of his dissolute life and promises to continue to do business. A letter arrives about the Bohemian forests, taking money from rich travelers and putting it into circulation. The poor students find this idea tempting, but they need an ataman, and although Spiegelberg himself was counting on this position, everyone unanimously chooses Karl von Moor. Hoping that “blood and death” will make him forget his former life, his father, his bride, Karl takes an oath of allegiance to his robbers, and they, in turn, swear allegiance to him.
Now that Franz von Moor has managed to expel his older brother from his father’s loving heart, he is trying to denigrate him in the eyes of his fiancée, Amalia. In particular, he tells her that the diamond ring she gave to Karl before separation as a pledge of fidelity, he gave to the libertine when he no longer had anything to pay for his love pleasures. He draws in front of Amalia a portrait of a sickly beggar in rags, from whose mouth he smells of “deadly sickness” - this is her beloved Karl now. But it’s not so easy to convince a loving heart; Amalia refuses to believe Franz and drives him away.
But a new plan has already matured in Franz von Moor’s head, which will finally help him realize his dream of becoming the owner of the inheritance of the Counts von Moor. To do this, he persuades the illegitimate son of one local nobleman, Herman, to change clothes and, coming to the old man Moor, report that he witnessed the death of Charles, who took part in the battle of Prague. The sick count's heart is unlikely to withstand this terrible news. For this, Franz promises Hermann to return to him Amalia von Edelreich, who was once taken from him by Karl von Moor.
This is how it all happens. Old Man Moore remembers his eldest son with Amalia. At this time, Herman appears in disguise. He talks about Karl, left without any means of subsistence, and therefore decided to take part in the Prussian-Austrian campaign. The war took him to Bohemia, where he died heroically. Dying, he asked to hand over his sword to his father, and to return the portrait of Amalia to her along with her oath of allegiance. Count von Moor blames himself for his son's death, he leans back on his pillows, and his heart seems to stop. Franz rejoices at the long-awaited death of his father.
Meanwhile, Karl von Moor is robbing the Bohemian forests. He is brave and often plays with death, as he has lost interest in life. The ataman gives his share of the spoils to the orphans. He punishes the rich who rob ordinary people, following the principle: “My craft is retribution, revenge is my trade.”
And in the family castle of von Moor, Franz rules. He achieved his goal, but does not feel satisfied: Amalia still refuses to become his wife. Hermann, who realized that Franz had deceived him, reveals to the ladies-in-waiting von Edelreich a “terrible secret” - Karl von Moor is alive and old man von Moor is too.
Karl and his gang are surrounded by Bohemian dragoons, but they manage to escape from it at the cost of the death of only one soldier, while the Bohemian soldiers lost about 300 people. A Czech nobleman who has lost all his fortune, as well as his beloved, whose name is Amalia, asks to join von Moor’s detachment. The story of the young man stirred up old memories in Karl’s soul, and he decides to lead his gang to Franconia with the words: “I must see her!”
Under the name of Count von Brand from Mecklenburg, Karl enters his ancestral castle. He meets his Amalia and is convinced that she is faithful to the “deceased Karl.” In the gallery, among the portraits of his ancestors, he stops at the portrait of his father and furtively wipes away a tear. No one recognizes the count's eldest son, only the all-seeing and always suspicious Franz guesses that his elder brother is visiting, but does not tell anyone about his guesses. The younger von Moor forces his old butler Daniel to swear an oath that he will kill the visiting count. By the scar on his hand, the butler recognizes Count von Brande as Karl; he is unable to lie to the old servant who raised him, but now he must hurry to leave the castle forever. Before disappearing, he still decides to see Amalia, who is experiencing feelings for the count that she previously had associated with only one person - Karl von Moor. The unrecognized guest says goodbye to the ladies-in-waiting.
Karl returns to his robbers, in the morning they will leave these places, and while he is wandering through the forest, in the darkness he hears a voice and sees a tower. It was Herman who came stealthily to feed the prisoner locked here. Karl tears the locks off the tower and frees the old man, withered like a skeleton. The prisoner turns out to be the old man von Moor, who, unfortunately, did not die then from the news brought by Hermann, but when he came to his senses in a coffin, his son Franz secretly imprisoned him in this tower from the people, dooming him to cold, hunger and loneliness . Karl, having listened to the story of his father, is unable to endure any longer and, despite the family ties that connect him with Franz, orders his robbers to break into the castle, capture his brother and bring him here alive.
Night. The old valet Daniel says goodbye to the castle where he spent his whole life. Franz von Moor runs in in a dressing gown with a candle in his hand. He cannot calm down; he had a dream about the Last Judgment, in which he is sent to hell for his sins. He begs Daniel to send for the pastor. All his life, Franz was an atheist, and even now he cannot reconcile with the new pastor and is trying to conduct a debate on religious topics. This time he fails to laugh at the thesis about the immortality of the soul with his usual ease. Having received confirmation from the pastor that the most serious sins of a person are fratricide and parricide, Franz is frightened and realizes that his soul cannot escape hell.
The castle is attacked by robbers sent by Karl, they set the castle on fire, but they fail to capture Franz. In fear, he strangles himself with his hat cord.
The gang members who carried out the order return to the forest near the castle, where Karl is waiting for them, never recognized by his father. Amalia comes with them, rushes to the robber Moor, hugs him and calls him her fiancé. Then, in horror, old Moor recognizes his beloved eldest son Karl in the leader of these bandits, thieves and murderers and dies. But Amalia is ready to forgive her lover and start a new life with him. But their love is hampered by the oath of allegiance given by Moor to his robbers. Realizing that happiness is impossible, Amalia prays for only one thing - death. Karl stabs her to death.
The robber Moor drank his cup to the end, he realized that the world cannot be corrected by atrocities, his life is over, he decides to surrender to the hands of justice. Even on the way to the Moor castle, he talked with a poor man who has a large family, now Karl goes to him so that he, having handed over the “famous robber” to the authorities, would receive a thousand louis for his head.
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The play tells the story of the von Moor family of barons. The action takes place over two years. The main characters are the father, the youngest son Franz and the count's pupil, the eldest son's fiancée, Amalia von Edelreich.
The play begins with the receipt of a letter from a Leipzig solicitor by Franz von Moor. The letter talks about his older student brother Karl, who leads a dissolute life, and this news saddens his father.
In the tavern, Karl is waiting for an answer from his father, who described everything and repented in his letter. He wants to work and get busy. The old baron decides to disinherit his eldest son. Karl's friend Spiegelberg voices his plan according to which they will create a gang of robbers in the Bohemian forests. Karl agrees to become their leader.
The younger brother Franz, in his own interests, begins to lie to Amalia about his brother. He tells her a false story about Amalia's ring being given to Karl. The girl does not believe Franz.
Franz persuades Herman, the illegitimate son of one of the nobles. According to the plan, he must come to the baron and say that his eldest son died near Prague. The old man will die, and Amalia will be married to Herman. Franz will receive the entire inheritance.
The plan is put into action. The old man faints, but guesses from the smile of his youngest son who is to blame for all the misfortunes. Karl continues to rob the rich and give money to orphans. Franz deceived Herman and he says that the eldest son and father-baron are alive. Amalia refuses to marry Franz.
After one battle, a nobleman without an inheritance, whose beloved was also named Amalia, falls to the robbers. Karl is going home to see his beloved. Under a false name, he enters the family estate, but his brother recognizes Karl. Franz orders the visitor to be killed, but the butler refuses, also recognizing him as the baron’s eldest son.
In the forest, the robbers find the tower and free the baron. Karl decides to take the castle, but Franz got scared and hanged himself. The old man recognizes his son and dies. Amalia cannot be with Karl, because he swore an oath to the robbers. At the girl's request, the guy kills her. After all the misfortunes, Karl von Moor goes to the poor man so that he will turn him over to the authorities for money.
The main idea of the drama is hatred between relatives, which can kill; a person’s responsibility for his choices and his actions, for his moral obligations.
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In the image of a hare, the Russian people are conveyed, who are devoted to the last to their royal masters - the wolves. Wolves, like true predators, mock and eat hares. The hare is in a hurry to get engaged to the hare and does not stop in front of the wolf when he asks.
- Summary of the Dog Pennac the Dog
The action with a stray dog takes place on the streets of Paris. A homeless animal encounters many obstacles and troubles on its way. A friend dies from a falling refrigerator
- Summary Turgenev Lgov
This story is about the protagonist's duck hunting in Lgov, a large village located on a swampy river. Not far from the village this river turns into a flood. Populated by many ducks of many different breeds
- Summary of Not by Bread Alone Dudintseva
From the first pages of the novel, Nadezhda Drozdova appears before us, working as a teacher in a small working-class Siberian village, who listens with interest to the story of the strange inventor Lopatkin
