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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who interrupts the song several times during the Epilogue?
2. What does Simone think she sees in the sky in Scene 21?
3. What does Sade say is essential to any real revolution in Scene 30?
4. Which of the following is not something the Singers accuse the rich of hoarding at the beginning of Scene 16?
5. How many years does the Interruptus cover?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Because The Marat/Sade consists of a play within a large play, the role of the audience is more ambiguous in the play than in a more traditional piece. Write an essay about this role, in three parts:
Part 1) Describe the audience that would have attended a Charenton performance in 1808. What is their social status? Why would they be in attendance? What is the purpose of the performance?
Part 2) Consider the subject matter of Sade's play from the point-of-view of the average 1808 audience member. What would their memories of the Revolution be? How would they feel, by and large, about Napoleon's France?
Part 3) Is the modern-day audience, to some extent, a participant in The Marat/Sade? How do the inmates fell of about their 1808 spectators, and how does the modern audience fill in for these spectators?
Essay Topic 2
In the play-within-the-play, Sade has created a sort of spectrum from far-left (Roux) to the far-right (Corday). Where do all the major players in this play fall on this spectrum? What does each extreme of this spectrum want regarding France? What is its ideal society? Does Sade present both as equally dangerous in the play?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the central argument between Sade and Marat. How do they different in regard to the right of private property? The violent overthrow of the aristocracy? The role of the middle class? Does the fact that Sade has written the role of Marat give him an unfair advantage in their dialectical debates?
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