take it as fantasy and not reach the true depth of the play. Brecht shocks the viewer by making the events and actions in the play "strange and abstract" this contrasts with dramatic plays where the audience sympathises and relates to the characters of the play. The theme throughout the play is natural justice versus class justice.

The title has links to other parables and stories before it. The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate. This however was overturned by the emperor, the guarantor of the law, in a retrial as the emperor was the father. This particular story is a whisper to the result of Grusha's trial. The emperor is portrayed as the epitome of justice and gives a true verdict. The trial scene is also adapted from the parable of King Solomon. Solomon

poor than the even distribution of wealth which is the main emphasis of the Marxiststate. The Marxist law is not equated with justice for all rather justice for the upperclasses, or class justice, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Azdak although seen as the arbiter of justice between Natasha Abashvilli and Grusha is shown throughout the play as greedy and corrupt when dealing with the upper classes. The humour that Azdak displays toward the upper class is entertaining, he constantly refers to them as "arse-holes.. sows.. well-born stinkers." This anal imagery

they are driven well; and the valley to the waterers, that it shall bear fruit." Brecht inthe play seeks to highlight the difference between justice and the law within Grusinia.The feudal society, or Marxist society, is shown to have harder implications for the

flux, keeping the audience in suspense as to the final outcome.

gain justice under exceptional circumstances. Azdak as the judge and arbiter of justice has come to this position only through a matter of chances and mistakes. Firstly he harbours the Grand Duke from Shauva, then he confesses to the Ironshirts only to be made judge because the Duke escaped. Then through shear chance just before his execu

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