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Melchior has been philosophizing about religion and self-sacrifice when he meets Wendla. In a previous scene, Wendla learned that he friend Martha was abused by her parents, and has been trying to understand what that experience is like. Melchior challenges Wendla’s altruism in helping the poor, but Wendla believes that Melchior could find happiness in helping others. She then asks Melchior to beat her with a switch, so that she might know what her friend Martha feels. Melchior refuses at
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On a sunny afternoon—Melchior and Wendla meet each other in the wood.
MELCHIOR: Is it really you, Wendla?——What are you doing up here all alone?——For three hours I've been going from one side of the wood to the other without meeting a soul, and now you come upon me out of the thickest part of it!
WENDLA: Yes, it's I.
MELCHIOR: If I didn't know you were Wendla
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