Abstract
Each play is produced with the use of a different method, and one of the methods which has a significant influence on drama is constructed by Bertolt Brecht. According to him, the best way to show his reaction against the system and stimulate the audience to take action against such system is epic theatre. His aim is to create a conscious society. For this aim, he uses epic theatre to create a distance between the play and the audience so that the audience can gain a critical insight. The reason is that such distance makes the audience use their reasons not feelings, which creates the feeling of rebel against the system including politics, economy (Benjamin, 1969). This helps the audience question the system and give the strength to change it. In order to activate the audience, he uses certain techniques of alienation based on distance between the audience and the play in epic theatre (Akçeşme, 2009). The Good Woman of Setzuan by Brecht is a significant play to analyse such techniques. With the techniques, he shows the injustice against the lower class and class distinction in the play. In other words, he leads the audience to question the capitalist society. Such techniques as giving a distant setting, the communication between the actor and the audience and the use of songs and verses can be observed throughout the play in order to break the illusion. Thus, this paper intends to analyse the techniques of epic theatre in the play The Good Woman of Setzuan to understand how Brecht break the automatized perceptions of the audience and show them a different world with the aim of rebel against the capitalist system.
Highlights
Aesthetics, the philosophy of art of beauty, is a subject that focuses on the study of the essence and significance of beauty
Classical Chinese poetry is a treasure of Chinese culture and world culture, and Tang poetry is undoubtedly one of the most important parts of them
In order to deal with these six disharmonies, Dr Wang Feng put forward the “Harmony-Guided Three-Level Poetry Translation Criteria”: at the macro level, "Harmony" is regarded as the criterion; at the middle level, "resemblance in style, sense and poetic conception"; the “Eight Beauties Criteria” at the micro level provides specific guidelines and solutions for poetry translation
Summary
Aesthetics, the philosophy of art of beauty, is a subject that focuses on the study of the essence and significance of beauty. It embodies all the aesthetic phenomena of the aesthetic relationship between man and the world. The research and practice of Tang poetry translation are helpful to the development of Tang poetry itself and plays a significant role in the study of Chinese culture. Many famous translators at home and abroad have carried out research and translation practice in his poems. Due to the different orientations of Chinese and Western translation theories and aesthetics, as well as the differences in language and culture, each translation has its characteristics. Arthur (Cooper, 1973; Jenyns, 1940; Martin, 1894), Witter Bynner & Kiang Kang-hu, Innes (Herdan, 1973), etc
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