Bertolt Brecht Essays

Toni Morrison is an American writer, famous for the way she explores black lives and experience, and the rich characters she presents in her works. She is the first black woman to receive Nobel Prize for Literature. Her fifth novel Beloved, brought her Pulitzer Prize. Beloved tells a story of how slavery impacts humans’ lives. How it separates families, deprives people of human emotions and their original rights, how it dehumanizes a person. The novel is based on a true life story. “I was amazed

For the sake of both cases, a paternalistic relationship would not be ideal because it is most likely that the patients would not agree with the physician’s choice. It has become more rare that physicians and patients share views that are similar and what the physician may see as the best choice may not be what the patients sees or vice versa. The informative model is very stern. It leaves out emotions and only focuses on the facts. This would not be the best relationship for the Dawson case because

Oh What A Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the first world war. It was first performed by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in 1963. The play shows all major moments of the first world war. Portrayed as a comedy, Joan littlewood implemented the use of Brechtian style performance, dark humour and satirical language to shock the audience comedically. Born 1914 in South London Joan Littlewood grew up surrounded by the war. In 1935 she met Jimmy Miller, aka Ewan MacColl; once married the two

A Comparative Essay of A Doll’s House and Top Girls Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls both are a pillar of critical writing about the society they were originally produced in and have a central theme of the oppression of women, which makes them great sources of feminist reviews. Although Ibsen “abandoned the concept that the play was about gender roles” (Urban, 1997), the central question is beyond the original context within which the plays were produced and received

cause-effect relationship between events and the character’s development. In this essay I will be demonstrating one of Berolt Brecht "non-Aristotelian drama", a dramatic form intended to be staged with the methods of epic theatre. Berolt Brecht was one of most prominent modernists during this era. He proposed the idea of the Epic Theater. In 1924, after moving to Berlin, Brecht started to work with Erwin Piscator. Piscator was known for practicing forms of political and social epic theater. After working

The overnight camp experience was very impressive and precious to me. I was in group three and we had arrived at the Tiu keng leng Jing Kwok Secondary School. On that day, we did not recognize each other well. According to what we had learnt before, our group should be at the forming and storming stage. We played different warm-up games and communication games so as to build up our team spirit. After playing each game, the teachers debriefed us on the purpose of the game. I also observed some of

Shakespeare: Gay? When Shakespeare wrote his plays, theatre companies were only using male actors; female parts were played by adolescent boys. Although boy actors were seen as the trainees and they would eventually play male roles when they were experienced and old enough, some of the most interesting and challenging roles in Shakespeare plays are women. Why would he write big female roles when there weren’t female actors? People believe that he wrote specific parts for specific actors; some boy

Brecht was born in 1898 in Germany, Ausburg. He had gone to Munich then Berlin, in search of a theatrical career, however it soon came to an abrupt halt as Nazis came into power in Germany. Brecht had fled to the USA to seek a better, safer future. Brecht was influenced by a wide range of writers and events, such as Chinese theatre and Karl Marx. The fact that Brecht had been through so much when his homeland got wrecked, gave him a political view to express reality. Epic theatre is where the spectator

Crane Brinton’s “The Anatomy of Revolution” endeavors to establish uniformities in four revolutions: the English Revolution of the 1640’s, the American Revolution, the Great French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution. Not only does Brinton seek to analyze these four revolutions, but he aspires to present his thoughts and findings in an unbiased and methodical approach. With a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, and having spent several years as a professor at Harvard, Brinton is highly

Theatre must be represented without any limits, full of freedom, without any boundaries. There is no such thing as correct theatre, it is the effect that is important. It is what it makes you feel. I want theatre that blows your mind, make you cry of sadness, make you cry of joyfulness, go further than one's imagination, I want theatre to change perspectives and lives. In this aspect I find similarities with Artaud, that claims for the audience to be disturbed, to feel uncomfortable and to wake up