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Struggling to seek one's own identity, one's own passions, and one's curiosity has long been something that can cause conflict in society and within an individual. There are those, some great, who are driven to find some truth in life no matter the consequences, even if those consequences were death. In Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, the reader is presented with a man who is driven to seek scientific truths, while also working with the society/Church that would berate him for his studies and findings. The following paper utilizes the story of Galileo as a foundation for discussing the difficulties of scientists who seek the truth when it conflicts with the ideas of the society.

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Brecht's play actually comes in apparently two forms, an earlier version and another version that he revised after the bombing of Japan. In his original play, the ending was different. With the revised edition, Brecht apparently did not recant his ideas. However, whatever......

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