The Tragedy of a Simple Man

Woyzeck takes psychotropic drugs and punishes himself physically He has no choice Its his living With what he earns selling his body and by working in a restaurant and in subway tunnels he just about makes ends meet Coming home to his wife Marie and his infant child hes an impotent wreck and definitely unable to afford the earrings he sees Marie wearing one day Shes frustrated and the jewelry is a gift from the local pimp Woyzeck wasnt supposed to find out But he has Plagued by voices he loses his already weak grip on reality He retreats into the tunnels with Marie and the baby There Woyzeck is the master of life and death