be treasured above all else? In Bertolt Brechts‚ The life of Galileo‚ the idea of the Catholic church controlling information is a central theme. The conflict of intellectual freedom; between the individual and authority. The Life of Galileo suggests that it is only through the process of questioning – and engaging that society can learn and grow‚ and one should treasure their intellectual freedom‚ as depicted through the main character‚ Galileo. When Galileo discovers new evidence about the rotation
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Early life Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg‚ Bavaria. On the 10th February 1898 Brecht’s home life was comfortably middle class‚ despite his occasional attempt to claim peasant origins. Thanks to his mother’s influence‚ Brecht knew the Bible‚ a familiarity that would impact on his writing throughout his life. From her‚ too‚ came the "dangerous image of the self-denying woman" that recurs in his drama. When he was 16‚ the First World War broke out. Fearing persecution‚ Brecht left Germany in
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directions‚ crucial areas of experience which the language and behaviour of the living room could not articulate or fully interpret.’ (Williams‚ 1989:85) Analyse why and how Bertolt Brecht decided to address the limitations of Naturalist theatre. Throughout the 20th century‚ the German poet‚ playwright and director‚ Bertolt Brecht stood as one of the most important theatrical reformers. Seeing plays as tools for social and political activism‚ rather than purely having an entertainment purpose‚ his
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Section 2 Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa‚ Italy on the 15 of February 1564 and he died in January 8th 1642. He was the first of 6 children that Vincenzo Galilei had. Galileo was an astronomer‚ mathematician‚ a philosopher and an inventor. He was also a musician. He studied medicine first then he studied mathematics. He was very intelligent‚ that is one of the main reasons he became famous. Although back then people believed the sun moved around the planets‚ Galileo was brave enough to prove them
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Galileo: Uniformity of Nature and Experimental Physics The Renaissance became one of the factors for the Scientific Revolution‚ bringing on the renewal of ancient times which led to the discovery of "ancient scientific texts (1)." This time period of the Renaissance also known as "the century of genius (1)" brought on a new view of nature bringing about ideas of great minds such as that of Galileo. He could be described as a Renaissance man‚ gifted in many areas as a talented musician‚ an artist
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aspect of Galileo life. The reason that the social aspect of Galileo’s life surprised me so much was that I never really thought of any of these big
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Galileo and Newton 2/4/97 Galileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all material things have "this or that shape" and are small or large in relation to other things. He also says that material objects are either in motion or at rest‚ touching or not touching some other body‚ and are either one in number‚ or many. The central properties of the material world are mathematical and strengthened through experimentation. Galileo excludes the properties of tastes‚ odors‚ colors
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Galileo Galilei is well known by many‚ but it is hard to pin point the exact reason behind this apparent fame‚ he became famous in terms of early empirical science late on in his life‚ when he wrote his text on the dynamics of rigid bodies Dialogues concerning the Two New Sciences ’ which is a forerunner of Isaac Newton ’s Laws of Motion. However this branch of science was not his passion or what he spent most of his life arguing and theorising about. Galileo was interested in the Copernican theory
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Mackie Messer. Brecht is unique in using a Verfremdung technique‚ a distancing of the audience to the characters and events on the stage. Brecht noticeably does this in two ways. First‚ Verfremdung is created in the text‚ characters‚ and other representations that appear in the work. With Macheath Messer as the bourgeois‚ murderous anti-hero‚ the antagonistic role of the character’s emotions‚ the character-audience relationship‚ and other representations of this society‚ Brecht allows the audience
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