... 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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