Assignment # 5                                                                    Rossy Jerez

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

SCENE:ACT II

I chose this scene because it really impressed me and caught my attention.

While Alan was asleep in his bed, a shadow appearedon his wall. The shadow was Cesare.

Alan and Cesare then began tussling .  Cesare then stabbed Alan to death.

Mr. Franciz, Alan’s best friend was informed by a neighbor that Alan was murdered.

It was Mr. Franciz who remembered the rebumliastphrophecy from earlier. When Alan

asked Cesare how long will he live, Cesare replied” until dawn”. Just then, that’s when

Mr. Franciz realized that  the murderer must be Cesare the dummy of Dr. Calgari

My interpretation of the scene was that you can see the fear in Alan’s eyes when he awoke

to some footsteps in his room.  Alan’s eyes represented that he realized that his time of death

has come.  You can see that Alan is very afraid and tussles with the murderer to try to save his

own life.  He tries to fight off the murderer by tussling with him, but loses the battle.  The shadow

shows him being stabbed to death then sprawled out on his bed.

This scene is related to the painting  “The Hand has Five Fingers,"  by John Heartfield (born

Helmut Herzfeld), 1928 paint by that time which showed to me the same expression as the

scene. Where it expresess fear, scare, and the anxiety.

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