SPRING AWAKENING

Honestly, I didn’t know what was going to b in this musical. I just wanted to watch because it was a musical and who doesn’t like musicals?

The thing is this is more that a musical it has context. Basically, this musical talks about how these group of teens are on their way dealing with their sexuality and suicide. 

I guess because of the conservative stage of the setting. Phallic stage for these teens came much later. We have the main character (Welda) who wants to know how babies are produced. We have Moritz and Melchior who are talking about Moritz’ wet dreams and how he yearns for a woman through his dreams. There was even one character who masturbated.

The musical also shows latency stage in which homosexual relationship begins with these two male characters who are friends and will eventually have sex on the set. 

The musical also showed genital stage which is present in Melchior, who I deemed to be the most mature character. He eventually realizes his attraction to Welda and eventually the two then get to the act. There was a part where Welda asked him to hit her and this turned Melchior into another person. I guess this is because his repressed sexual desire is trigger by such event.

Overall, this musical is amazing as it displays different characters in a different lights of the later psychosexual stages. 

1. Phallic Stage is seen in the naive Welda and Moritz who is now discovering their sexual identity

2. Latency stage is seen in the two men who are supposed to be friends but then got into a homosexual phase.

3. Genital stage is seen in Melchior, who is highly noted to be a very mature character, who discovers his hidden sexual desires