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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author refer to having subjugated Plato?
2. Writing of Balinese performances, Artaud notes that "Everything is thus regulated and impersonal; not a movement of the muscles, not the rolling of an eye but seem to belong to a kind of reflective ________ which controls everything and by means of which everything happens."
3. Artaud comments that anything obsessive may be considered what?
4. Artaud says that the reason the public is not interested in "higher" art and in theater in particular, is because people do not react to what?
5. In order to put theater back on its original path, it will be necessary to link it with everything that can exist as an ______ on a stage.
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Artaud relate theater to the painting from "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
2. Who does Artaud hold responsible for much of the "masterpieces" he wants to demolish? Why?
3. What does Artaud write of civilization and culture in his Preface?
4. What does Artaud write about the message of the painting he describes in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
5. What is the principle limitation of the current theater, as described by the author in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
6. What commonality does Artaud assert between Alchemy and the theater?
7. How does the author describe the effects of a plague on civilization?
8. What does "gold" represent in Artaud's analogy of "The Alchemical Theater"?
9. What is the link between art and culture in the Occidental theater? How must this change, according to Artaud?
10. What are the author's feelings about psychology and the theater? What of poetry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the term "totemism." What does this word mean in the context of Artaud's vision of the theater?
Essay Topic 2
In "The Theater of Cruelty: First Manifesto," Artaud discusses the need for a "new language" for the theater as "a metaphysics of speech, gesture, and expression, in order to rescue it from its servitude to psychology and "human interest." What does he mean by this?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the concept of "archetypes." What is an archetype? How does Artaud envision their use in the theater?
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