This document describes the relationship between Dunlap and Kotzebue, two influential people in theatrical arts, and the effects of that relationship.The result of that relationship is the reason why Americans have a disregard of history.This is because of a total socialization process that allowed for the development of a false consciousness and distortion of history.This journal criticized and analyzes the relationship between the two men and how their work influenced America, even America in today's world, with the types of media that we produce.It looks through the lens of a Marxist and criticizes the way American media is today. It starts off analyzing Dunlaps and Kotzebue relationship and how Dunlap learned from Kotzebue, which goes against the biographies and articles about them. The biographies portray their relationship as more negative than it really was. The source for this biography was his son and according to the journal “...Dunlaps remarks about Kotzebue are based on hearsay.” (Zipes 274) The reason why the information in the biography was
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He used this as a way to criticize their societies and the puritanical standards that America had at the time to bring change. That method of playwriting stayed with America until the modern day. Dunlap helped implanted the idea in our minds of excusing racism and bigotry because they just mean well and it’ll always end on a happy note, which isn’t always true.These ways of formatting a story lead to America’s melodramas, soap operas, musicals, and
He used this as a way to criticize their societies and the puritanical standards that America had at the time to bring change. That method of playwriting stayed with America until the modern day. Dunlap helped implanted the idea in our minds of excusing racism and bigotry because they just mean well and it’ll always end on a happy note, which isn’t always true.These ways of formatting a story lead to America’s melodramas, soap operas, musicals, and