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The alienation effect that brecht creates is one of distancing the the audience from the action in the play.” safe against the temptation of being sucked into it ” Brecht created a form of theatre called “epic” theatre which did not create the illusion of the events happening at the moment, as well as to manipulate to audience into detaching themselves and have a critical state of mind. ... therefore brecht argues himself that “art gets its effects by empathy than accuracy”. “Brecht attacks empathy on the scene grounds before he attempts to stave it off by methods of ‘alienation’.” By this, Brecht in Epic theatre creates the opposite to dramatic theatre where the fourth wall is constantly broken as the actor’s addresses the spectator and also suggests to the spectator that they can question what they are feeling.
If Brecht wanted to comment on society of the time he would often set his plays in another country or in another time period. Brecht would use a narrator with groups of people talking together as a chorus.
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