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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who begins throwing items at the nurses during the Epilogue?
2. What does Marat demand be done with the seized farmland?
3. Which book of the Old Testament does Corday read in Caen?
4. Which of the following items is not something Marat blindly seeks in his fever at the beginning of Scene 21?
5. Who do the Singers say speaks for all of France?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The point-of-view of the play-within-the-play in The Marat/Sade is transitory in nature. Write an essay about the various points-of-view, focusing on the following three points:
Part 1) Most of the cast of Sade's play represent the poor of France, led in their songs by the four Singers. To what extent is the play told from the point-of-view of the common rabble? What is their position on the events of the play?
Part 2) How does the cadence and tone of the play-within-the-play change as Marat's mental state and health deteriorate? How is the play a chronicle of his final hours, his doubts, and his anger at the Establishment?
Part 3) To what extent is the play exclusively Sade's perspective on Marat's life and work? What is his position on the radical revolutionary, and how does he present this view in the play?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on the topic of absolute power. Marat is offered it over the course of the play, but he refuses it. Duperret and Corday fear he will become dictator. The play itself takes place in the shadow of Napoleon. Does Weiss believe that all power corrupts? Is he implying that Marat might have been an exception?
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