Context

Question 1

EXPRESSIONISM

What was it?

Answer 1

EXPRESSIONISM

• dramatise spiritual awakening and sufferings of the protagonists
• testifies to failures of social values

Question 2

EXPRESSIONISM

What kind of tone does it give a play?

Answer 2

EXPRESSIONISM

mystical with frequent apocalyptic tones

Question 3

EXPRESSIONISM

What does it dramatise the struggle against?

Answer 3

EXPRESSIONISM

Struggle against bourgeois values and established values

Question 4

EXPRESSIONISM

When was it developed?

Answer 4

EXPRESSIONISM

early 20th century

Question 5

PLASTIC THEATRE

What was it?

Answer 5

PLASTIC THEATRE

use of props, noises and stage directions to convey a parallel with characters state of mind on stage

Question 6

PLASTIC THEATRE

What is its effect on the audience?

Answer 6

PLASTIC THEATRE

impress more abstract ideas upon audience

Question 7

PLASTIC THEATRE

When did it start to develop?

Answer 7

PLASTIC THEATRE

1940s after Tennessee Williams used the term in the explanation in ‘The Glass Mengerie’

Question 8

SOUTHERN BELLE

What is it?

Answer 8

SOUTHERN BELLE

stock character presenting American’s south upper socioeconomic class

Question 9

WW2

What happened to states after?

Answer 9

WW2

States started emerging as dominant power

Question 10

ROMANTICISM

What did the legacy of the Civil War leave?

Answer 10

ROMANTICISM

air of decaying grandeur adds to Romanticism

Question 11

YOUTH MOVEMENT/ROCK-AND-ROLL CULTURE OF THE 1950S

What did Marlon Brando add to this?

Answer 11

YOUTH MOVEMENT/ROCK-AND-ROLL CULTURE OF THE 1950S

dangerous yet seductive portrayal as the leading way for this