In this play, through the character Galileo, Brecht reexamines the recurrent theme of obstacles to social progress. ... It was a success because it was highly popular, but it was a failure in that it caused the audience to feel sympathy for its characters, which violated Brecht's technique of "epic theatre." ... He then spent the rest of the year and the whole year of 1948 in Zurich, where he worked mainly on the play Antigone-Modell; an adapted work from the translation of Sophocles. ... However his strong character and intelligence helped him overcome these obstacles and become a ...

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