First, Swiss Cheese, the "heart" of the family, suffers from honesty, his most prominent and pure trait. Through Swiss Cheese, Brecht literally shows how honesty will get one nowhere in society. During the incident with the money box, dishonesty was the obvious "easy way" out, but Swiss Cheese's strong values would not allow this to happen. ...
Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg in 1898. His father, a Catholic, was a director of a paper company and his mother, a Protestant, was the daughter of a civil servant. Brecht began to write poetry as a boy, and had his first poems published in 1914 at the age of 16. In 1917 Brecht enrolled as a m...
This essay will discuss the development of theatre in the 20th century. It will be discussed in chronological order. It will trace the development of theatre from the late 19th century through realism, naturalism, symbolism, Epic theatre, Existentialism and the Theatre of the Absurd. With each new g...
