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Censorship and the Theater

            For as long as an established government is being run and artists are putting out good, thought-provoking work, there has always been a backlash due to a clashing of opinions amongst both the government and the people. One of the more beautiful things about the human mind is that we are able to make decisions and form opinions on certain issues and things we experience everyday and things we encounter with others or by ourselves. In doing so, we subject ourselves to the work of others and everything they have to offer us. With these experiences come our opinions and our stances on certain issues. These opinions often clash with the opinions of others and that is when true conflict arises and, hopefully, a useful and beneficial outcome.
             Over the course of the 20th and so far in the 21st century, there have been a number of contentions about theater and its reputation in the public eye. Theater is a form of art that is unparalleled and cannot be compared to any other art form. It challenges the mind and offers real life situations to the public for entertainment purposes and for the purpose of making the audience think. As theater became more progressive and moved forward in the idea that plays can be about literally anything, the influence of the oddities of life began to play a major role in the playwright's minds (no pun intended). The far reaches of writer's imaginations have been explored, put on paper and eventually personified by actors on a stage. Situations never thought possible are brought to life on stage and are open to be viewed by anyone wishing to. By challenging the work of artists, you are keeping them from expressing their thoughts and ideas in a tasteful manner, which is something the United States was founded on. The ideas that are challenged and criticized are often the ideas that scare people the most, due to the fact that they are the situations we as humans face every single day.


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1. Music Censorship

What is music censorship you ask? ... (Nuzum 7) Is music censorship right, absolutely not. ... Freedom of expression, does this mean that an eleven-year-old should hear and understand the lyrics of Alanis Morisette when she sings, "is she perverted like me, will she go down on you in a theater?" ... There are many anti-censorship activists out there that are trying to stop music censorship. ... (Nuzum) Music censorship is simply a morality issue. ...

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2. popular culture censorship

This statement is some times doubtful because of all of the censorships that are placed in music, cartoons and movies from now in days. ... Its true rap artists now in days use a great deal of obscenities, violence and foul language in their lyrics that can create censorship. ... Many people based the student's acts to a movie that had come out to theaters by the name of "The Matrix" which had seen that was similar to what the students were wearing that day. ... These kinds of acts that are in no way related to any movie, promote more censorship in movies which, at the same time diminis...

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3. Art Censorship in Communist China, AND AMERICA

Art for Politics Sake: Art Censorship in Communist China, And The United States We want one single, grand lie which will be believed by everybody - including the rulers, ideally, but failing that the rest of the city -Plato from his Republic Today if an average American was asked if he or she believed that censorship was an important part of the perfect state, they would not only answer "no" but they would say that the perfect state must have no form of censorship in order for it's people to be happy. ... Another, more modern philosopher also had a similar view to cen...

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4. The Freedom Of Speech

Although these examples are good reasons for censorship, initiating these steps would unveil a censorship disaster. Looking at all levels of American citizens, some of the people that want censorship are legislators on a local, state, and even federal level. ... Often censurers are parents, members of religious groups, or just citizens who are concerned about the presence of indecent or improper material in their schools, libraries, theaters, bookstores, television, and else where in the community. ... Although there are strong cases made for and against censorship, the rising trend callin...

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5. The Freedom Of Speech

Although these examples are good reasons for censorship, initiating these steps would unveil a censorship disaster. Looking at all levels of American citizens, some of the people that want censorship are legislators on a local, state, and even federal level. ... Often censurers are parents, members of religious groups, or just citizens who are concerned about the presence of indecent or improper material in their schools, libraries, theaters, bookstores, television, and else where in the community. ... Although there are strong cases made for and against censorship, the rising trend callin...

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6. Art Censorship

Censorship can be dated back to ancient Greek and Roman times. ... In the twentieth century, censorship has gone to more extreme measures by involving the government and legal system. ... The National Endowment of the Arts is the federal agency responsible for providing funding for various artists and arts groups such as museums, theater, and dance groups. ... One of the most recognizable quotes among the cases of art censorship tries to demonstrate the challenge of defining and identifying what is obscene and what is art. ...

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7. Art Censorship

Art Censorship Throughout the history of mankind, a portion of the population have felt the need to remove or suppress material that they consider to be morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable, such as books, films, or other materials. Censorship can be dated back to ancient Greek and Roman times. ... In the twentieth century, censorship has gone to more extreme measures by involving the government and legal system. ... The National Endowment of the Arts is the federal agency responsible for providing funding for various artists and arts groups such as museums and theater and dan...

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8. Plautus

There were moral laws and censorship on almost everything. ... Many times in Plautus" works he would remind the audience that what they were watching was just a play, but in the smallest way the people in the theater felt as if they contributed to freeing some of their censorship....

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9. In Praise Of Censure

Luce Professor of American Culture and Public Policy at Northwestern University, defines censure, as oppose to censorship. ... Constitution, as toleration or censorship does. ... Wills also uses authorative testimony to support his statement that censure is better than censorship. ... To show how censorship can put a limit on a person's given rights, the author makes the statement that censorship used to regulate and punish college students' speech are "legally muzzling,"" since it restricts the rights of the First Amendment. ... The quote shows how censorship has gotten extremely o...

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