PT141.S2.Q10

PrepTest 141 - Section 2 - Question 10

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Actor: Bertolt Brecht's plays are not genuinely successful dramas. ███ █████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ████ ███████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ███████████ ██████████████ ████ ███ █ ████ ██ ███████ ██ █ ██████ █████████ ████ ████ ████ ███████ ██ ██ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███████████

Summary

The author concludes that Bercht’s plays are not genuinely successful dramas. This is based on the following:

In Brecht’s plays, the audiences and actors find it difficult to discern any of the characters’ personalities.

In order to be a successful drama, audiences must care what happens to at least some of the characters.

Missing Connection

We have a premise that tells us what’s required to be a successful drama — audiences must care about at least one character’s personality. So if we can show that for Brecht’s plays, audiences do not care about any of its characters, we can prove that Brecht’s plays are not successful dramas.

The other premise tells us that audiences/actors find it difficult to discern characters’ personalities in Brecht’s plays. If we can show that this difficulty in discerning characters’ personalities implies that audiences won’t care about the characters, that would provide the missing link.

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10.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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