Notes on Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"

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             Brecht's aims in his writing and directing career can be summed up in three simple words: shock, stir and arouse. These were the aims that Bertolt Brecht set out to accomplish when he began his career. Brecht's main way of doing this was through alienation of the audience, a previously unused technique. Through the way his actors acted, broke down the third wall, used satire and did things that made the audience feel uncomfortable, the audience was alienated, not knowing what to think, and thus, Brecht accomplished his mission. Brecht worked in a very different style with his actors than what most people would consider to be normal at the time. This fits in perfectly with Brecht's character of wanting to revolutionise theatre. While in Aristotelian producti
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