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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What color is Corday's hair?
2. In the Singers' Scene 21 song, what has just been destroyed?
3. Who has the final line of the play?
4. What institution's sacking does Sade recall witnessing in this section?
5. What are the fates of both Duperret and Corday after Marat's murder?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Much of the dialogue in The Marat/Sade focuses on the link between theory and violent action. Write an essay about his link, focusing on the two dominant symbols of each. How are they connected? What responsibility doe the author seem to imply the theorist has regarding the enacting of his ideas?
Part 1 ) Marat's quill and paper
Part 2) The guillotine
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Focusing on the final scene of Act 1, The Faces of Marat, write an essay profiling the life and ambitions of Jean-Paul Marat. How do his past reflect the desires and passions of his Revolutionary period? Who does he consider his enemies? Who, his allies? Feel free to cite examples beyond the central scene to explain his later beliefs and doubts.
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