Hands Around (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Arthur Schnitzler
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1890’s
- Setting: Vienna, Austria
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Psychological drama, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Values, Tradition, Sex or sexuality, Prostitution or prostitutes, Class consciousness, Corruption
- Locales: Vienna, Austria
Characters Discussed
The Prostitute, Leocadia, who begins and ends the sexual roundelay. She loses what little dignity she has left when she gives herself, free of charge, to the uncaring Soldier on the banks of Vienna’s Danube Canal. In a later sexual encounter with the Count, she is more self-assured, more hopeful, and more “professional.”
The Soldier, Franz, an unfeeling, swaggering macho type. He treats his second sex partner, the Maid, no better than his earlier one as he takes her on a meadow at an amusement park.
The Maid, who surrenders herself to...
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