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Nikoleta Patova The Moral Evaluation of the Material
(With examples from the dramaturgy of the Revival)
Summary
Money, material relations, become new accent and regulator
of the interpersonal and public relations of the patriarchal environment
of the Bulgarian 19th century.
The comedies of the Revival, “The misunderstood civilisation”
and “Foudoulescou”, present different projections of attitude towards
the Material – from extreme miserliness to a renaissance delight
with the beauty and the convenience of the belongings. Literature
and, especially vividly dramaturgy, register the first express public
exhibits of the Bulgarian vanity parade, which gathers more and
more followers. Money and their recently unsuspected quality
to be spend, not only to be put aside and hoarded, lead to changes
in the patriarchal morals and to the imposing of new values (in
moral and material plan). The conflicting between the inherited
economic order and the newly discovered sense of the Material is
building curious plots and gives opportunity for ambiguous evaluation
of the dramaturgy characters.
In the new attitude towards the Material one can read
in the signs of understanding and sympathy, as well as of extreme
negation. The liberating power of the money turns to be too startling
for the conservatism of the Bulgarian patriarchal world of the 19th
century.
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