Good_Woman_of_Setzuan

Good Woman of Setzuan A Religious Struggle to Survive The play, The Good Woman of Setzuan, written by Brecht is an epic play about society and religion. Throughout the play there is a struggle for goodness and for survival. The play the Good Woman of Setzuan is about religion. In this play the author gives specific thoughts and ideas about religion and how it should be followed. While Shen Te is struggling against society to survive, she is also struggling within herself to be a good person, according to the gods. The gods have a code of ethics that each person should follow in order to be considered good. They are on a search for one true good person in the world. Shen Te is trying to be this religious good person.. As long as a person is in search of goodness and always seeking for hope they are good in the eyes of the gods. When this play was taking place poverty was very common. It was not uncommon to see people result to deceit in order to survive. Shen Te was an exception she was an honest person trying to survive the best way she knew how. When the gods come good, te, shen, play, trying, person, survive, gods, about, woman, while, struggle, setzuan, search, religion, goodness, story, stay, should, religious, god, following, throughout, struggling, society, sight, say, result, principles, people, order, one, long, knows, issue, honest, first, deceit, commandments, written, world, witnesses, within, way, virtues, very, ups, unworthy, unfortunate, uncommon