ellirene said:
"how are these large and complex ideas relavent to a contempory society"
does any one know anything relating to this question?
would be MUCH appreciated, we have trials on monday,my costume design is also due on monday, art trials are also monday, ancient history trial is weds and final gp is thursday :|
i havent had time to study or even practise gp with all these major works ive had [also pip and art major which is due friday :s]
so please! if anyone out there knows anything about this question, i'd be delighted to read what you know
Hey there ellirene,
I don't know if you still need help, but i thought id plaster my two cents here for you.
Okay, firstly, the question
"how are these large and complex ideas relavent to a contempory society"
So when we look at the question in terms of brecht, we immediately look have to go, okay, firstly what is meant by large and complex ideas.
for me, this would be where i would just, place brecht, in his political and artistic context, stating how he strove to make a new theatre in which, he could make the audience think about something that only a play could show.
Taking, The threepenny opera as an example, i would just say, that in his "new theatre" his audience wasnt solely and wholley caught up in the story. Brecht worked hard to prevent his audiences from establishing an empathy with the characters and a total belief of the story. So in Threepenny opera, brecht was able to get the ideas of relentless economy (where society is unlimitied because everything has a price and is for sale - our trust, our soul, our bodies etc) thought of by the audience, because of theatre of alienation techniques. such as Vermfumsdung (which is the convention, of distancing the audience, through making the performance "strange" or "hyper-realistic" so the audience treats the play as if they are watching a play, as observers as oppose to witnesses)
This idea of relentless economy, and that of responsibility and ownership that are brought up in the caucasion chlk circle, are universal. which means regardless of time or context, they are present. In contemporary society, dominant cultural is the slave of consumerism, and the oil fields in iraq, are fought over much like the child in CCC.
but yeah, the whole arrangement of brecht's plays was tp cause his audience to discuss and choose a position on universal themes and their climate in their society. the complex and large ideas, are always relevent because they are universal... corruption is a natural human phenionuem(mispelt?)
umm yeah that was a large rent, but its essentially the line of arguement id take, just backing it up with more experientail work.
apologies for no reference to your text, mother courage and her children, i have done very little study on this text and yeah...wouldnt want to sound clumsy....
hope this helped in some small way and you do well in your exams
- Todd
