meaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience. Epic theatre

involves the use of alienation techniques to distance the viewer from the story but still

concentrate on the overall meaning. The person who just views the story would likely

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

the law is on their side. This is the final hint that Grusha will get the child, as she is

roses." This helps Azdak give the verdicts he gives to the "monied classes" such as the

constantly refers to them as "arse-holes.. sows.. well-born stinkers." This anal imagery

the case and it takes a greedy Azdak who despises the upper classes to give a just

gain justice under exceptional circumstances. Azdak as the judge and arbiter of justice

thus the children to the maternal, that they thrive; the carriages to good drivers, that

the moment, the chalk circle is a real test, and it is through this test that Azdak decides

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