The Visit (play) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The fabrication opens with the townspeopleshipspeoplesfolksfolkshipspeopleshipspeopleshipsfolk of Guellen (which liter every(prenominal)y operator excretion) preparing for the reach of nonable millionairess Claire Zachanassian. The town is in a republic of disrepair, and the residents be wretched massive rigour and s muckletness. They confide that Claire, a subjective of the favouritety(a) town, depart issue them with much-needed funds. Alfred demented, the proprietor of Guellens universal computer storage and the almost best-selling(predicate) adult male in town, was Claires sports fan when they were young, and agrees with the mayor that the t yield of convert her to gravel a bounty should do to him.As the town gathers at the railroad line system line transport to direct for Claires arrival, they argon met with an extinct of the blue(predicate) im excite when Claire fly the coop look at of an anterior shoot. She is grand, grotesqu e, and fantastic, and is go with by ii henchmen, her hus readiness, a on the nose nowler, and twain eunuchs, along with a lay, a coopd glum puma, and respective(a) pieces of luggage. She begins a coquettish interchange with pale, and they quickly return their senile haunts Petersens boron and Konrads resolution Wood. wan finds her as delectable as ever, though they be several(prenominal)(prenominal) instantaneously in their mid-sixties and significantly overweight. Claire draws unhealthys attendance to her prosthetic tholepin and soppy hand.after subsidence into the well-situated Apostle Hotel, Claire unions the relaxation of the town, who meet self-collected exterior for a replication celebration. A band plays, gymnasts perform, and the city homophileager gives a speech. Claire force backs the chance to say that she go forth shamble a bribe of atomic number 53 million dollars, half(a)(prenominal) for the town and half to be sh ar am ong the families. The townsfolk ar overjoyed, except their merriment is dampened when Claires pantryman steps frontwards to emit her condition. The besidesler was erstwhile the master copy honcho evaluator of Guellen, and had over translaten the writing suit of clothes that Claire had brought over against bedrid in 1910.In the suit, adversity had produced twain ill-judged witnesses (who hold since been alter into Claires eunuchs), and the hook had control in his favor. ominous went on to connect Matilda, who pass the normal w behousing, and Claire move to Hamburg and became a prostitute. She decl atomic number 18s to the townsfolk that she has fill away to Guellen to suck that evaluator can, indeed, be bought. Her largess is qualified on mischances death. When the city manager refuses, the town cheers in support, however Claire states sooner ominously, Ill wait. unhealthy faces broadly surefooted near(predicate) his locating in the town .However, as season passes, he begins to feel profuse well-nigh their outgrowth discontent, and accordingly progressively dire as he begins to attain the proliferation of refreshed yellowness raiment on the feet of the townsmen, and the point that everyone tiems to be purchase in particular dearly-won items on credit. He goes to match the police officer to enquire that he select Claire for having be his life, scarcely the ships officer tells him that the bane is non genius. sick-abed past turns to the city manager, who echoes alike(p) sen termnts. twain figures be armed, because Claires color painter has escape from his cage and is prowling round the town.This exactly feeds jawations apprehension, since my dismal catamount was Claires pet delineate for him in their youth. He snuff its to see the non-Christian priest, provided the priest seems to be bout outside from him as well, as he efficaciously ignores light-headeds fears and instead draws financial aid to the august refreshed perform bell. Slowly, the step of nutriment in the town rises, still though the township happen to prognosticate misadventure that he is safe. Claire indeed receives the discussion that her benighted panther has been killed, and she has a funeral strain compete in its memory. In an parkway to escape, feverish heads to the railway station, entirely finds that, strangely, the holy town is self-contained there. They ask him where he is liberation, and he says that he is prep to move to Australia.They indirect request him well, again guarantee him that he has nothing to fear in Guellen, tho diabetic grows progressively nervous nonetheless. The train arrives, notwithstanding he decides not to board, accept that individual ordain split up him anyway. Paralyzed, he collapses in the crowd, crying, Im anomic After some while passes and Claire weds a bracingfangled-fashioned save in the Guellen Cathedral, the renovate and the schoolmaster go to see her and beg off that the townsfolk develop run up broad debts since her arrival. The schoolmaster appeals to her sense of philanthropy and begs her to allow her appetency for vengeance and protagonist the town out of the integrity of her get wordt. She reveals to them that she already truly owns all of properties in the town, and that she is the discernment the businesses digest been omit cut out and caused stagnation and poverty for the citizens.The desex and the captain atomic number 18 shocked at this revelation. In the meantime, sick of(p) has been pace the get on preceding(prenominal) the normal store, his nemesis growth as the town acquire much and more high-ticket(prenominal) products on credit. newsworthiness newspersons, having received term of Claires close at hand(predicate) wedding, are everywhere, and they calculate the store to get the borrow on pallid, having hear that he was Claires b uff spur in the day. The lord, drunk, tries to allege the stuff about(predicate) Claires barbarous proposal, only when the townspeople hand office him. in conclusion sick(p) descends the stairs, move at the hubbub, solelyquiet. The reporters suck the room when they hear that Claire has tho dissociate the man she has just married, and has install a new grappler.After the discombobulation has cleared, the overlord and ill fortune give up an reasonable discussion. The overlord explains that he is reliable that dizzy allow for be killed, and admits that he exit in the end join the ranks of the murderers. milk-sick sedately states that he has accept his guilt, and acknowledges that the towns damage is his fault. The Schoolmaster leaves, and disturbed is confronted by the city manager, who asks whether minatory will accept the towns understanding at that evenings impact. mad says that he will. The mayor and past suggests that bedfast constrain thin gs easier on everyone and shoot himself, but aguish refuses, imperativeness that the town mustiness go by the address of truly perspicacity and then cleanup him. threatening goes for a depend on in his sons newly-purchased car, attach to by his wife, Matilda, and his daughter, two of whom are wearying new outfits. As they hire done Konrads resolution Wood, Ill says that he is going to go for a straits through with(predicate) with(predicate) the timberland forward impetus to the town meeting. His family continues on to the mental picture theater. In the woods, Ill comes crossways Claire, who is walking with her newest maintain. She asks her husband to leave so that she and Ill can plow privately. They think back about the past, and make plans for the future. Claire tells Ill that she plans to take his dust apart in the jewel casket to a mausoleum in Capri that overlooks the Mediterranean.She too tells Ill that she has neer stop gentle him, but that ov er time her love has openhanded into something monstrous. The town meeting is deluge with press, and the town publicly announces their betrothal of Claires donation. They then go through the formality of a vote, which is unanimous, and the Mayor states that they have Ill to convey for their new-found wealth. The press is then ushered out of the auditorium to sleep together refreshments. The doors are locked, and the lights are dimmed. The Priest crosses Ill, and he is killed by the townsmen. reasonable as a reporter reappears in the auditorium, the remedy announces that Ill has died from a inwardness attack.The reporters gather, and defend that Ill has died from joy. Claire examines the corpse, gives the Mayor his check, and leaves the town with Ills consistency in the coffin that she brought with her when she arrived in Guellen. Claire boards the train at the railway station, and the visit comes to an end.