What do you consider are the chief concerns of the Good Person Of Szechwan? and what dramatic techniques does Bertolt Bercht use to communicate these to his audience?

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What do you consider are the chief concerns of the Good Person Of Szechwan? and what dramatic techniques does Bertolt Bercht use to communicate these to his audience?

 “Bad people get rewarded whilst good people suffer” I believe is one of the chief concerns in this play the good person of Szechwan. You could say this one saying summaries the whole play. This is what the play is about good people suffering. The main obvious example of this in the play is the example of Shen Teh. She was the one good person that the gods found, but because of all the bad people (the parasites) who exploited her, she had to suffer. She firstly suffered because of her so called relatives at the beginning all the way back in scene two they took advantage of her kindness and bombarded her and she couldn’t say no. One of the main speeches in this scene is said by one of the relatives as soon as they arrive “ We heard you were doing nicely now and just fancy we’re without a home”. You as an audience have got to ask the question would the relatives come to visit if Shen Teh didn’t have the shop? Shen Teh lets her relatives stay and suffers the consequences . Another example of this curliness is the example of sun. He blatantly takes advantage of Shen Teh’s attraction and maybe love to him. This is very wrong but Sun doesn’t care as long as he is able to follow his dreams. But once again Shen Teh falls into the trap of the parasites. He plans on selling her shop so he can follow his flying breams in Pekin. An example to show that Sun isn’t at all in love with Shen Teh is in scene eight he says to Shui Ta “And the girls not one hesitate when it’s a question of giving”. Luckily enough Shui Ta manages to control the situation. Throughout the play Brect gets this point across very well. He shows the suffering that shen Teh through with speeches from Shen Teh herself. Most of these speeches are in rhyme and are often to the audience, this lets the audience connect with Shen Teh’s suffering.  An example of such a speech to show her suffering is at the end of scene two she says “The dingy which might save us, is straight away sucked into the depths: Too many of the drowning Snatch greedily at it.” This speech gives the impression that Shen Teh is defiantly suffering because of the greedy, her family, who snatched at her only life line, the shop.

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Another very important point in this play that Brecht is trying to get across to the audience is that you cant get a good person in a bad world. You

have to change the environment that the people live in before you can change the people. This point is expressed once again in the character Sun. He is not going to change in himself, to be a better person the world has got to change around him first. For example he wouldn’t need the money from Shen Teh if the man in Pekin wasn’t demanding ...

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