Mara Weber

Full name: Mara Weber

Gender: Woman

Class: Working class

Occupation: Unemployed; currently seeking work

Residence: A small town in Prussia

Era: Late 16th century

Background

Grete Weber was born into an ordinary working household with little money and no meaningful social standing. Her family survives through whatever work they can find rather than through land, titles, or substantial property.

Grete herself is currently unemployed. She isn't a professional craftswoman with a secure trade or a permanent position; she is simply trying to find someone willing to pay her for useful work.

That makes her life frustratingly unstable. She goes from one possible employer to another, asking whether they need another pair of hands. Sometimes she finds temporary work. Sometimes she doesn't. Being willing to work is not the same thing as there actually being work available.

She therefore spends a considerable amount of time looking for opportunities: household service, agricultural labor, market work, domestic production, assisting craftsmen, or whatever other work is realistically available to a woman of her circumstances.

Personality

Grete is practical, stubborn, observant, and somewhat cynical.

She doesn't romanticize poverty. She doesn't believe that being poor automatically makes someone morally superior, nor does she think the rich are all individually evil. She simply understands that the social order gives people very different amounts of room to make mistakes.

She particularly dislikes being told to simply "work harder" when there is no work available.

Grete can be sarcastic and occasionally abrasive, especially when someone treats her unemployment as evidence of laziness. She knows perfectly well that she would rather have reliable income than spend her days searching for it.

Despite her hard exterior, she is not heartless. She tends to be generous toward people who are genuinely struggling because she knows what it feels like to need help.

Outlook

Grete has no elaborate political ideology. Her understanding of society is based mostly on observation.

She notices who owns things.

She notices who works.

She notices who gets paid.

And she notices who somehow manages to live comfortably without doing either.

Her opinions about class therefore come from experience rather than political theory.

She also dislikes the limitations placed upon women, particularly when those limitations prevent her from taking work that she believes she is perfectly capable of doing.

Strengths

- Resourceful

- Persistent

- Practical

- Observant

- Independent-minded

- Adaptable

- Good at judging people's character

Weaknesses

- Cynical

- Easily frustrated

- Can be suspicious of people's intentions

- Sometimes too proud to accept assistance

- Her bluntness can close doors that she desperately needs open

- Her lack of stable employment leaves her vulnerable to exploitation

Core conflict

Grete's central problem isn't that she refuses to work.

She wants to work. There simply isn't always work available to her.

She is caught between the expectation that a respectable woman should contribute to her household and the reality that opportunities are controlled by employers, household heads, guild structures, landlords, and the local economy.

For Grete, "just get a job" isn't advice.

It's the problem she's already trying to solve.

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