... as the a-effect or distancing technique involving the process of taking human social incidents to be portrayed and labelling them as something calling for an explanation. The intention behind this effect is allowing the audience to criticise constructively from an objective viewpoint. Brecht's aim in alienating ... obvious, familiar and understandable and surround it with curiosity. Due to the playwrights influencing of the audience to be detached and think for themselves, audiences are drawn away from the sentimentality of the play and forced to make conscious decisions relating to iss...

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... chief innovators of modern theatrical techniques. He was both a poet and a playwright all in one. His epic theatrical creations developed drama as a forum for social and idealistic causes. Brecht's imagination, artistic genius, and social views distinguish his work and his life. Eugen Bertolt Brecht was born February 10, ... and a failure. 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." In these mature works Brecht overgrew the single-minded didacti...

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