The Measures Taken By Bertolt Brecht Analysis

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The Measures Taken - Bertolt Brecht Introduction The Measures Taken is a Lehrstück written by the twentieth-century German dramatist, poet and theater-director Bertolt Brecht. The play is divided into eight sections in prose and unrhymed, irregular verse, with six significant songs. This play received its first theatrical production at the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin, opening on 10th December 1930. The main character of the play was the Young Comrade along with three leading comrades who travel to China from Russia to spread the teachings of Communism to the subjugated working class. About the Author Bertolt Brecht was born Eugene Berthold Friedrich Brecht in Augsburg, Bavaria, of the German Empire, on February 10, 1898. He…show more content…
They organized a Party School and instructed its members how to make the prohibited text available secretly. But at the time they were working in the textile factories, and when wages were lowered, some of the workers struck. But the strike was endangered because the other segment of workers continued working. The three asked the young comrade to stand by the gate of the factory and distribute those leaflets. There was a policeman standing to guard the factory against any mishaps. The young comrade handed a leaflet of the text to a factory worker and asked to read and pass it to the others. Soon enough, the policeman snatched the leaflet from the worker’s hand when he entered the factory. The policeman started to interrogate all the workers to find out where the leaflet came from. None of them could mention about the comrade correctly. After a while, the comrade entered the scene and argued with the policeman that none of the workers were responsible. The policeman being very enquiring hit a worker and angered the young comrade, who at once hit the police back who fainted. Being scared, the workers engaged in a verbal fight with the young comrade and his identity was discovered again at once. Subsequently, the comrades were chased

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