Subject Matter

• • 1 Busy life + fleeting premonitions about falling and death
• • 2 
  • Death selects Maiden
  • Maiden asks Death to leave her alone; he’d like to rock her to sleep; she’s frightened but accepts
  • Maiden realises that she’s going to die.
• • 3: The Maiden’s friends enter, but can’t help the Maiden
• 4: Maiden dreams of death. Her last night on earth is filled with fever. Death is violent.
• 5: Maiden wakes, thinking she’s safe. Maiden dies.