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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2010  
         
  Article:   PEPE VS. PEACHUM OR THE HAND WITHOUT A STORY.

Authors:  MONICA BOZDOG. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This essay is an overview on the resemblances between two characters: Mr. Puiut, Pepe one of the main characters in Nae Caranfil’s movie: Philanthropy and Mr. Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum a character in Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera. It is an attempt to bring to the surface the universal way of seeing a side of every society that is ignored and overlooked: beggars. In the organized hierarchy of the world of the beggars these characters appear as the masterminds behind the curtain. They have similar ways of seeing the world and human emotions and values like charity, indifference, morality and last but not least money. Although they belong to different societies in more than half a century away they are, surprisingly, very much alike. The present work is just the starting point for a more profound and in-depth analysis.

Keywords: The Threepenny Opera, Philanthropy, Beggars Opera, beggars, charity, indifference, money, Pepe, Peachum, Nae Caranfil, Bertolt Brecht.
  
         
     
         
         
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