I did not see the scene
in the same way as Buch. I would definitely still have the child present.
Although it seems to be a sort of nightmare, the child is a part of that
nightmare, so I would have it on stage. Buch said that the horse represents
passion, but in this scene I felt as if it was a war horse representing death. It
just doesn’t make sense to me to have the horse represent passion in this
scene. Rather, I think it is the mother-in-law and wife’s lament of the child’s
illness that eventually leads to his death. Perhaps it is a nightmare. Perhaps
they are just imagining that the child is dying, but that make it all the more
haunting. In this case, I apply the statement to each his own. I don’t think
Buch’s interpretation is bad; I just would direct the scene differently.
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