Dr Korczak's Example
- Created by: SJC
- Created on: 15-05-13 14:46
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- Dr Korczak's Example
- Plot Line
- city was under Nazi occupation and the jewish population had been hearded into a ghetto
- Adzio has been living on the streets, when he is caught for stealing
- Dr Korczak saves him from execution by taking him into his orphanage
- He is taught the rules by Stephanie, but cant see the point in them as he thinks they will die anyway
- at the end of the play Dr Korzak and the orphans are taken away to a death camp.
- Adzio and Stephanie, however,escape
- Main characters
- Dr Korczak
- Loved by the children in his care, respected by both the jewish community and the Nazis for his work
- Adzio
- streetwise, a fighter and survivor
- Stephanie
- has faith in Dr korczak and his ideas, but her beliefs are shaken by Adzio's brutally realistic view of the situation
- Dr Korczak
- Major themes
- the play presents an argument
- Adzio's philosophy is to fight violence with violence and survive at any cost.
- Dr korczak's belief that evil must be resisted by setting an exampleof rationaland humane behaviour.
- although Dr Korczak was murdered by the Nazis, his principles have lived on
- the fictitious characters of Adzio and Stephanie may have escaped the transport to the death camp,
- but weather or not they survived the Holocaust is left unknown
- other characters in the play, such as soldiers and orphans, could be played by actors, though in the original production they were presented by simple puppets
- Plot Line
- Adzio and Stephanie, however,escape
- Adzio's philosophy is to fight violence with violence and survive at any cost.
- the fictitious characters of Adzio and Stephanie may have escaped the transport to the death camp,
- but weather or not they survived the Holocaust is left unknown
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