In Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, the protagonist is caught in his class position, which breeds hopelessness and hopelessness. We see a similar class struggle in Waiting for Lefty. How do the two playwrights depict the lower class and their struggle in daily life? Both plays were written in fragments, and it is not necessary for the fragments to be arranged in some predetermined order to understand the plays. Büchner did not complete Woyzeck, as he died before he could complete it, at the age of twenty-three. In Waiting for Lefty, the middle scenes can also happen in random order, without changing the room. It is interesting to note that the Dramatists Play Service Inc. edition has completely left out one scene in its current edition. Both plays are based on real events, Waiting for Lefty is "based on the New York taxi drivers' strike of 1934" (Miller, 429), while Woyzeck is "based on the real case of a barber who stabbed his mistress. in a fit of jealousy and was sentenced to death in 1821” (Billington). Both authors use real events to call for more social justice and even revolution, a more subtle allusion from Büchner and an outright demand for change in Waiting for Lefty. Woyzeck has an occupation; he is a soldier in the Hessian army and is his officer's barber. He has an illegitimate child with his common-law partner Marie, but nevertheless lives in the barracks with his colleague Andres. When Woyzeck shaves his officer, the captain mocks his morals due to his poverty: “Woyzeck, you have no sense of virtue. You are not a virtuous man” (Büchner 25). The captain questions his morality, since Woyzeck has a child with Mary without the blessing of the church. However, the same captain does not comment on the m...... middle of paper ...... broadcast on Broadway, the commercial capitalist theatrical mile of New York and many middle class people also saw it . A similar piece would probably encounter much more difficulty in contemporary times. Yet both plays challenge their contemporary status quo and seek to change their class system, one more subtle and the other outright demanding changes. Works Cited Billington, Michael. "Review: Arts: Woyzeck Forever: How the True Story of a Murderous Barber Inspired the First Modern Drama." The Guardian (London): 19. September 28, 2002. Web. Büchner, Georg. . (Büchner)Miller, Jim. “Workers’ Theater and the “War of Position” in the 1930s.” Modern drama. 39.3 (1996): 421-435. Internet. March 7, 2014. Odets, Clifford. Waiting for Lefty. New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 1962. P