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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Coulmier invite the audience to do at the beginning of the Epilogue?
2. According to the Herald in Scene 19, what is the most sympathetic way to be executed?
3. Which of the following is something that Sade claims the hypothetical Revolutionaries expect from the Revolution?
4. Who separates Duperrat and Corday when the former begins to molest the latter?
5. In appeasing Coulmier in Scene 18, which is not a group to which the Singers pledge fidelity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sade spends much time in the play debating Marat's philosophy, but the ostensible subject of the play-within-the-play is his murder. Write an essay detailing Sade's attitude toward the murder. Does he believe it is a good thing for France? Does he believe Charlotte Corday had a cogent vision for France? Though the prompt requires conjecture, use evidence from the text to defend your position.
Essay Topic 2
In Weiss's play, sex and violence are intertwined in a way such that one cannot exist without the other. Write an essay on this inextricable link, focusing on these three points:
Part 1) How does Charlotte Corday represent the perfect balance of sexuality and destruction? How does her plan to murder Marat hinge on her sexual allure? How does her religious fervor play to both of these attributes?
Part 2) The Marquis de Sade was infamous for his linking of sex and violence in his writing. How does the Sade of Weiss's play explain this fascination? What is his attitude to either sex or violence individually?
Part 3) Focusing on Sade's speech to Marat before Corday's third visit, discuss both sex and violence as driving forces both in the play and the play-within-the play.
Essay Topic 3
The Marat/Sade is an inherently grotesque piece. It lingers in the dark, violent, and perverse places of human experience. Write an essay about Weiss's use of the grotesque in the play. How do the inmates, Sade, and the time period of the play-within-the-play reflect the grotesque? What is Weiss calling horrific in nature? Subjugation? Revolution? Life in general?
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