Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objective history; what has been produced is a literary extension of the issues and conflicts raised by the Revolution. Sartre and Mills, to whom the Revolution was like an overdose of hormones, totally altered their styles in trying to influence popular attitudes. Mills even admitted to a quasi-military intent when he said that mobilization of public opinion against an invasion was a goal of Listen Yankee...
...Clear Intent. But what "lawful interests" of the West was Khrushchev ready to acknowledge? He has often asserted that the very presence in Berlin of U.S., British and French troops is illegal; East Germany's Red Puppet Walter Ulbricht, who would get control of Berlin's access routes after any peace treaty, has vowed to stop the exodus of refugees running out to West Germany and clamp down on the city's economy...
...plays of the young Brecht are, essentially, an amalgam and a derivation. Not that the savagery and sharpness (or their intent) were borrowed: the rapacious soldiers and leering camp followers of A Man's a Man could not have been conceived by anyone else; yet they do most obviously have a model, the Kipling of "O, it's Tommy this an' Tommy that . . ." So too their spineless victim-- only he is patterned after, not Kipling, but Jaroslav Hasek's Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik--a book Brecht thought one of the "three literary works of this century which . . . will...
...Brecht's intent, of course, in manipulating these characters of other writers was to break the barriers of the theatre of illusion (the "culinary theatre" he called it contemptuously), and they became basic parts of his 'epic' narrative methods. By 1924, when work on A Man's a Man began, he had added Pirandello to his list of influences: this act, as A Man's a Man shows, finally gave him the skills to shatter completely the culinary arts. The audience is now at arm's length, and the actors can themselves glide from impersonations, now assuming a new role...
...intent of the plot, too, seems close to Pirandello. Galy Gay, the hero and victim, is an Irish dockworker in India (Itself another Kiplingesque amalgam: the time of the play is 1925, but Victoria has not yet relinquished the throne of England). So passive a character is Gay that the three soldiers can erase his individuality altogether--originally weak and insignificant, and a pacifist, he is made to join their machine gun unit to replace a man whose absence would expose the soldiers as temple robbers. Given the missing man's identification card, he becomes a ferocious super-hero...