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Brecht had to reject such a concept because it is also rooted in the idea of an unchangeable world. The drama of Renaissance and classicism accepts the world as it is, and the focus of this drama becomes a man’s suffering because of his flaws, because of “human nature.” Man may change at the end of the great Western tragedies in the sense that he learns something significant about himself.
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Cardullo, R.J. (2015). A World in Transition. In: A Play Analysis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6_11
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