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Volume: 7 Issue: 4 , 2024

Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle: A Triumph of Marxism as an Ideal Model.

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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a German dramatist, poet and theorist, born in Augsburg, Germany, where his father worked at a paper company. Although his father was a catholic and his mother a protestant, both parents influenced him immensely. Brecht abandoned his medical career and became a theatre critic. From 1922 onwards, he made several visits to Berlin- the centre of theatrical activities.Samuel Leiter says that Bertolt Brecht’s first directorial job was Arnot Bronnen’sPatricide in 1922. Thereafter, his play Drums in the Night opened in Munich at the Kammerspiele and later at the Deutshes Theatre in Berlin. He was awarded the prestigious Kleist prize for young dramatists. Bertolt Brecht initially read Karl Marx’s works but Marxism did not become a determining factor in his works until the 1930s when he started writing didactic plays. These plays were of dramatic economy. He fled from Germany in 1937 with his major actress and later wife Helen Weigel and their three children as a result of the Second World War. Bertolt Brecht’s theatre and Marxist aesthetics are an investigation of the theatre’s apparatus; political efficacy and theatrical contours. Brecht’s theatre epitomizes his radical desire to change the world, replacing it with a higher level of sane humanity. This paper examines Brecht’s fascination with the Marxist bug and how this ideological bent is brought to bear in his dramatic oeuvre especially –The Caucasian Chalk Circle- A parody of war and the torpedo of capitalist materialism which is the seedbed of greed, corruption and oppression of the poor and vulnerable. The paper submits therefore, that with Brecht, the world has witness an open theatre which is characterized by its leftist and liberalized theatre practice which remains dateless.

Factors Responsible for Colleges of Education Students’ Difficulty to Communicate Orally in French.

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The majority of Ghanaian French Language students have wished that they speak some acceptable level of French in and out their study institutions. This, has however, not been fruitfully. This study set out to investigate the reasons for the difficulty in engaging in oral communication in the French Language by French Language students in colleges of education in Ghana. This quantitative study adopted the cross-sectional survey design. Out of 122 target participant population, 93 students from the St John Bosco’s and the Gbewaa colleges of education provided responses to the questionnaire items. Data was analysed using the Kendall’s coefficient of concordance to rank the factors responsible for students’ difficulty to communicate orally in French from the most pressing factor to the least pressing factor. The study realized that fear of being mocked, interference of the English language and inadequate exposure to the French language were the most pressing reasons/factors responsible for college students inability to communicate orally in French whiles inadequate time allocation for French lessons and lack of encouragement from French teachers to speak French orally were among the least reasons for college students’ inability to speak French orally. It was therefore recommended that there is the need for pro-activeness on the part of French Language tutors to frequently engage students in oral communication and also discourage students from mocking colleagues who might make mistakes in their efforts at oral speeches. Also, a deliberate policy by school authorities and the tutors alike to make French speaking attractive through reward schemes should be made available and students should be encouraged to form or create French language clubs which will provide them the platform to practice oral communication on campus to aid fluency in the French Language.

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International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics (IJLLL)

Volume: 7 Issue: 4 , 2024

Examining the Contribution of Selected African Novels to the Naming Rites.

Abstract

Syllabification in Optimality Theory.

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Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle: A Triumph of Marxism as an Ideal Model.

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Factors Responsible for Colleges of Education Students’ Difficulty to Communicate Orally in French.

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