Galileo Galilei

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Brecht’s famous play Galileo Galilei is about the famous scientist of the Renaissance age, Galileo. Galileo tried to show the church that the copernican system is actually true; however the church accepted the Aristotle’s way of thought and therefore the inventions Galileo announced were considered as a blasphemy to the Bible.

This is the basic story of Galileo; however Brecht tried to find out what is humane behind this story. Beginning from the facts, he created a totally dramatic play which shows the reader the way Galileo felt when he was making those discoveries. He also opened a debate on the conflict between the search for truth in science and religious authority.

The first scene starts with Galileo’s talking with Andrea. While explaining him about the copernican system, Ludovico comes and shows him a telescope. The telescope impresses Galileo much, so he starts to work on it. The first scene also gives us background information on Italy and the economic system. Galileo perfects the telescope, however the idea is stolen from Ludovico and invention is stolen, so it is plagiarism. However we feel not so bad about Galileo in that scene, because we see that he thought about the telescope and he is aware that it is a plagiarism. By the help of telescope, Galileo finds out that the Copernican ideal on universe is actually true so he writes to the court in Florence. The main idea here is the danger of truth and the curator in the museum finds out about the plagiarism.

In the court he had a debate with the aristocrats on his new discoveries and that scene shows us that the aristocrats fear from the truth, because they are part of a world that has not been existing for sometime. the age is Renaissance and it is the age of reason.

In scene 6, Brecht questions whether man must find all the answers to the questions in the Universe. Are we really individuals?, who are the center of the universe? or are we the best fruits of...