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To support himself, Marie, and their child, Woyzeck agrees to allow the doctor to perform experiments on him. The doctor is a bumbling, obnoxious man who seems more interested in humiliating Woyzeck than he is in conducting legitimate scientific research. He regularly condescends to Woyzeck and doesn’t care about (or even seem to notice) the adverse effects his experiments have on Woyzeck’s health. In one experiment, the doctor orders Woyzeck to eat only peas in order to test how the diet affects Woyzeck’s urine.
Doctor Quotes in Woyzeck
The Woyzeck quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor or refer to Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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What a man. He’s possessed. He didn’t even look at his child. He’ll go mad with thinking.
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Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Observe this creature God has created. A nothing, a mere nothing at all. But see what he has achieved; he walks upright, has a coat and trousers, carries a sword. The monkey is a soldier. Though that’s not saying much, the lowest form of humanity.
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No, Woyzeck, I’m not getting angry. Angry is unhealthy. It’s unscientific. I’m calm, quite calm. My pulse is its usual 60 and I tell you with the utmost coolness . . . God forbid that we should get angry over a mere human being, a human being.
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He runs through the world like an open razor, you could cut yourself on him.
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Eh? What do you say? Louder, louder! Stab? Stab the she wolf dead. Stab, stab the she wolf dead. Shall I? Must I? Do I hear it up there too? Is the wind saying it? I can hear it on and on, on and on. Stab her dead, dead!
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WOYZECK. I’ve got the shakes, Doctor.
DOCTOR (pleased). Ah, ah, wonderful, Woyzeck!
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Doctor Quotes in Woyzeck
The Woyzeck quotes below are all either spoken by Doctor or refer to Doctor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Scene 2
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What a man. He’s possessed. He didn’t even look at his child. He’ll go mad with thinking.
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Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Observe this creature God has created. A nothing, a mere nothing at all. But see what he has achieved; he walks upright, has a coat and trousers, carries a sword. The monkey is a soldier. Though that’s not saying much, the lowest form of humanity.
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No, Woyzeck, I’m not getting angry. Angry is unhealthy. It’s unscientific. I’m calm, quite calm. My pulse is its usual 60 and I tell you with the utmost coolness . . . God forbid that we should get angry over a mere human being, a human being.
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He runs through the world like an open razor, you could cut yourself on him.
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Eh? What do you say? Louder, louder! Stab? Stab the she wolf dead. Stab, stab the she wolf dead. Shall I? Must I? Do I hear it up there too? Is the wind saying it? I can hear it on and on, on and on. Stab her dead, dead!
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WOYZECK. I’ve got the shakes, Doctor.
DOCTOR (pleased). Ah, ah, wonderful, Woyzeck!
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