Bertolt Brecht

quite rightly, that you should never seek to appease racists, they confessed to thinking that antisemitism was over by the 1960s. After Hitler, humanity would surely see where the world’s most insane hatred led and resolve to put it to one side. Bertolt Brecht said: “Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.” My parents did not believe…

vehicle to gain profit. In 1939, amidst the imminent threat of another world war, Bertolt Brecht expressed his deep concerns about war through the publication of his play Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years War, which depicts a canteen-woman’s journey through Europe during the destructive war (1618-48), portraying her business endeavour and the ultimate loss of her three children. In the play, Brecht presents war as a corrupt and dubious means of gaining profit…

for drama, but few plays share as much cultural significance as Lysistrata and Mother Courage. As the plays are often cited as two of the most well known anti-war dramas of all time, they share a unique distinction: Aristophanes’s Lysistrata and Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children both feature prominent female protagonists in an era of limited gender equality. Indeed, the function women have in war is often constrained by socially constructed gender roles, but the two protagonists…

has always existed as a place where political problems can be analyzed. The most satisfying part of theater is when it makes you think and has people expressing their thoughts about the performance for days or years later. Admired playwrights – Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller – all created political plays that shocked audiences. Political work is going to continue to being set up on the stage on account of the theater…

When Bertolt Brecht introduces Alienation effect, a technique of acting in which all “illusion” and “magical” elements are removed from the the stage, he leans heavily on the role of the actor to perform in a way that is almost counterintuitive. Through the A-effect, as Brecht calls it, the guise of the fourth wall and all pretense that the performance that is being viewed is anything other than a performance are done away with and in doing so the actor sequences the duty of empathically…

Saint Joan of the Stockyards, play by Bertolt Brecht attempts to represent drama of life with regard to financial issues of 1930’s. He makes an attempt to dramatize the complex economic situations with the help of his study of Marxism and capitalism. This play portrays the depths of suffering which has a moving effect on audience. In Saint Joan of the Stockyards everything eventually comes down to the question of meeting ends and means. It also portrays the socio-economic difference in classes…

upheld fascist ideas, a form of right-wing totalitarianism, which emphasized the subordination of the individual to the advancement of state interests. Author Bertolt Brecht, a proud supporter of anti-Nazism, alluded to both fascist and totalitarian principles in his play, “Fear and Misery in the Third Reich.” In this literary work, Brecht walked his audience through Nazi Germany during the 1930s, a land full of poverty, violence, and fear. The play presents twenty-four scenes that show how…

these basic human values such as Recognition, Family and Fairness are shown in the literary works that showcase how they destroy human values. Recognition is the act of being acknowledged of ones work and given credit for it. In the works of Bertolt Brecht “A Worker Reads History” and Studs…

Throughout our performance, we used the technique ‘body as prop’ successfully to convey the structure of two of the three little pig’s houses. There was a contrast in the two houses due to the differentiated shape and tension. To convey the building of the house, synchronised movement was used to show the shape develop. To show that I was acting as my character my face was in neutral; this showed the audience the diversity between my character and the usage of body prop. I also feel that we…

possessor." Bertolt Brecht questions the purpose of virtues during war in his play, Mother Courage and Her Children. While the play is set during the Thirty Years' War, Brecht suggests that during the German invasion of Poland, there is a lack of morality in society which is caused by the war. To convey the immoral effects of war, Brecht uses the journey of mother courage's cart in order to map the imminent loss of society's virtuousness during a war as society struggles to survive. Brecht…