Growing up in a middle class family and inspired by expressionism and communism ideals, Brecht revolutionised the course of modern European theatre in his creation of a completely new form of theatre. ... As a socially and historically confined cultural concept, realism offers a window view on the world while Marxism springs from communism ideals of equality between all people and the non-existence of social stratification that proves to be a major difficulty in this play. ... Yet I also noticed that quite a lot of changes were made to the script that made me wonder if it was actually allowed...

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A governess-private teacher-was the only respectable occupation for young unmarried ladies during the victorian era of whom did not have any economic means, family, brother, or father (Dooley). ... Those same large skrits and constrict-ing cosets were known to make moving freely a daugthing task,plus their superflourious attire made spells of hysteria and fainting were the norm ( ideals of womanhood). ...

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"If she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that." (Bronte, 2010) This quote was directly taken from a novel by Charlotte Bronte entitled Jane Eyre. The terms 'Plain Jane' might be familiar and relevant to ...

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Charon states that the fundamental reasons why societies are unequal are the division of labor, social conflict, institution of private property and ability to accumulate wealth, and power, prestige, and privilege (Charon 69). Jonathon Kozol in his article "Savage Inequalities" describes the societi...

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