... characters are constructed to hold similar values and attitudes as the viewers therefore allowing them to be lured into emotionally identifying with the characters, following Stanislavski method style of acting. Epic theatre however detaches itself from this theory, instead manipulating the situation so that the "human being is the object, the inquiry." Through separating the audience from the characters, the ... was a thief she crept away." Here Grusha's image is intentionally destroyed, as Brecht does not want the audience to sympathize with her. They must decide individually their vi...

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... they were striving towards an entirely new social function of the theatre," (Brecht p, 131) but he proposed a further advance in the development of epic theatre. Brecht's Marxist political convictions led him to propose an alternative direction for the theatre that would fuse the two functions of instruction and entertainment ... it both rationally and emotionally. Brecht was opposed to Aristotelian drama and its attempts to lure the spectator into a total identification with the hero, resulting in feelings of terror and pity and ultimately an emotional catharsis. Brecht didn't want his ...

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