Liebetraut indeed succeeds in
bringing Weislingen
to Bamberg.
Adelheid,
an
evil
and
ambitious
person,
knowingly
lets
herself
be
used
as a
tool
of the
Bishop.
By means
of her
beauty and exceedingly sly
behavior
she
succeeds in
kindling
such
passion
in
Weislingen that he
loses
all control
over
himself.
He breaks the
promise
he has made to
Götz and leaves
Maria,
who later marries
Sickingen,
a
powerful knight
friendly
with Götz.
Weislingen goes to, by
lodging
an
accusation,
succeeds in
having
the
emperor
authorize him to
proceed against
Götz, who
now
suddenly finds himself
surrounded
in his castle by
a
host of
the
emperor's
troops. He is
captured
and
brought
to
Heilbronn,
where he is
to
swear an
oath of eternal truce. The councillors of the city, which
is hostile to
him,
demand much too
far-reaching
declarations
so
that
they
may
use
his
refusal
as a
pretext
to
imprison
him.
From this
exigency
he is saved by
Sickingen,
who by force of
arms
marches
into
Heilbronn in the
nick
of time.
Scarcely
has Götz
peacefully
settled in his castle for
some
time,
when the Peasant War
breaks
out. Götz takes
over
the
leadership,
partly
out of
necessity
and
partly
because he considered the
uprising
totally justified.
He
recognizes
too late what
a
responsibility
he has
taken
upon
himself. The
most
terrible atrocities
are
taking
place. He
wants to detach
himself from
the
insurgents.
But it
is
too late.
Weislingen
has
suppressed attacked the insurgent
masses
with his
troops
and has defeated them. Wounded in the
battle
and
captured
soon
thereafter,
Götz is condemned to
death
as a
traitor by
Weislingen.
In the
meantime,
the
jealous Weislingen
has ordered his wife to
leave for his estates. Angry about that, and
driven
by her ambitious
plans
Adelheit decided she decides
to
poison Weislingen.
She
accomplishes this through his
page,
whose passionate love for her has
made him her tool.
As
he lies dying,
Maria
comes
to
plead with him
for
her brother's
life.
Under
the most terrible
physical
and mental
sufferings
he
signs
his Götz's
pardon
and dies
soon
thereafter in
despair.
Götz succumbs to his
wound
and with dark
thoughts
about
the
future takes leave of his wife, who had
faithfully
and
firmly
clung to
him and revered him
until his last breath.
Adelheid is condemned
to death
by
the
Vehmic
court.
22.
MATURA
EXAMINATION (B) FRENCH:
"MY
FUTURE PLANS"
[18 September
1896, 2-4 P.M.]
Albert
Einstein
MY
PLANS FOR
THE
FUTURE
A
happy
man
is too
satisfied
with the present
to dwell too much
upon
the
future.
But
on
the other
hand,
young
people especially
like
to
contemplate bold projects. Also,
it
is
natural for
a
serious
young
man
to envision his
desired
goals
with
the
greatest possible
precision.
If
I
am
lucky
and
successfully
pass my
examinations,
I
shall
enrol in the
polytechnical
school in
Zurich.
I shall stay there four
years
to study mathematics and
physics.
I
suppose
I will
become
a
teacher of these branches of natural
science,
opting for
the
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