Charles Marowitz listed The Good Person of Szechwan among Brecht's major plays in 1972.[21]
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In the novel, The Good Woman of Setzuan, water serves as a symbol of community, survival, and power. The novel's exploration of water as a symbol of power is directly connected to capitalism, and Wong's desire to make money... to not just survive...
Their main job seems to be to find out the qualities of the people they encounter. While they hope to find goodness, charity, and honesty, they encounter people who have all bad vices and seem to have no redeeming qualities. When a poor prostitute...
When the gods appear to Wong in Scene 9a, they reveal how little goodness they have found in the world. Shen Te is the only person who has "stayed good," and Wong draws attention to the fact that she has not even done that. The third god...
