Blog8 Play--Galileo Galilei

On Friday night, I watched the play Galileo. This is a play written Germany playwright Bertolt Brecht. This play shows the life of Galileo. Galileo is an famous Italian physician, mathematician and astronomer. He improved the telescope and use it to prove the solar system is sun-centered. But at that time this theory is against by the church and most people didn't believe that. So Roman Catholics told Galileo everything supports sun-centered  theory will be forbidden. Because of the touture from the church and people belief, Galileo had to give up claiming the sun-ventured theory. He was arrested in home. At the end, he gave the book which include all of his theory on science and math to his student Andrea Sarti. Andrea made more people know Galileo's theory.

The impressed scenes for me are the ending part of the 4th scene and the beginning part of the 5th scene. At the ending part, Galileo tried to convince the people in church and pope the sun-centered theory is truth. But the pope just fiddled with the crosier and didn't want to listen to what Galileo said at all. The funny and exaggerated action made a lot of audience laugh at that time, it exactly show the characteristic of pope, he is stupid, conservative and he never accepted new theory. But were those people in the church always religious? Although they always told people to obey the bible, but they don't obey at all. Bible was an excuse for them to convince other people. In reality, they drank, dance crazily, they do what a priest shouldn't do, these were showed in the beginning part of the 5th scene. 

This play is really hard for me to understand although I had looked for some information about it before I saw. The language is really hard. I totally can't understand what actors said. Because of this, I think I miss a lot of excellent language of this play. But for the plot, I think it impress me a lot. What I write

Before about religious people usually have same characteristic in other plays. But for this play, there's still something unusual. What do you think about an scientist as a hero? Maybe he should always insists his theory. But in this play, it doesn't happen. Galileo gived up. I think there was nothing wrong with him. Everyone may has thought like that at that moment. If he insists his theory, what will happen with him? He would be punished by the church and then died. He couldn't come up with more theories, he couldn't write his studies in the book and tell the truth to people. I thought he just believed there were more ways to prove his theory, not only death can show he was right.

Although the language is hard to understand, but from the visual aspect, this play is nice. The background of the stage is dark, I can see clearly what actor do, and the light is changed appropriately. The script is really hard to remember, it includes Latin words. And especially for the main character Galileo, he always have very long words to say, but he didn't make mistake on that. And what makes me surprise is that the actress who play in Galileo, she was international student, from Germany. Everyone in this play did well and show us a such great play at last.