Activity Marxism Drama Cover

WELCOME
CLASS!
Aubrey Macaloyos
e-Course Activity Marxism Drama Application
e-Course Activity Marxism Drama Application

Guide Question
1.What ideas come to your mind when you see
the image?
2.How will you compare the people under to the
people at the top of the platform?
3.What will happen if the people under the
platform refuse to do their role?
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Objectives
 classify the social class of the characters in the drama, The World is an
Apple;
 relate their selves to the situation of characters in the drama, The World
is an Apple; and
 create a re-enactment of their chosen scene in the play, which shows the
difference of social classes in the drama, The World is an Apple.
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Karl Marx
• German philosopher, economist, historian,
sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and
socialist revolutionary.
• The Communist Manifesto
⚬ importance of material possessions and
physical comfort
⚬ theory of class struggle
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MARXISM
View literature as a representation of:
• contemporary class conflict
• an attempt to examine the existing
problems brought by the difference
between social classes.
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CAPITALISM
-An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or
corporately owned and the operations are funded by profits.

SOCIAL CLASS
Exploit the laborers to expand
Bourgeoisie their profits
-employ laborers
Exploited by the bourgeoisies -own private properties

Proletariat RICH GETS

- sell their labor for wages. RICHER AND
- exist only to work and increase capital. POOR GETS
POORER
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Albert Florentino

• A Filipino playwright and book publisher

• His famous work is The World is an Apple
• Most of his plays center on social issues and the
struggle of ordinary Filipinos in their everyday
lives.
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The world Is an apple

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QUESTION
1.What are the differences between Mario and his employer?

MARIO His employer

 Wage earner  Business owner
 Lives in poverty  Own an infrastructure
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QUESTION
2. Who do you think are the powerful people in the story?

MARIO’S employer
 employ the laborers
 has the decision to dismiss or accept
an employee
 has money and authority over the
work area.
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QUESTION
3. How did they exploit the main characters?

 Mario was dismissed without severance pay.

 He was expelled immediately for the benefits of the employer’s own men.
 Mario was punished for taking part of something that he worked hard.
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QUESTION
4. What would you have done if you are in the situation of Mario? Why?

Take the apple

Do crime with Pablo
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QUESTION
5. How did the author convey the difference of Philippine social classes in the
play?
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role Play
Instruction: Criteria Points
Create a re-enactment of the scene Significance 40
that you think shows the difference Thoroughness 30

between social class presented in

the drama, The World is an Apple. Creativity 10

Each group will be given 3-5 Delivery 10

minutes to perform their works in Script 10

front of the class. TOTAL 100

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Quiz time
Direction: Read the statements below and choose the letter for the correct answer.

1. Marxism identified ________as the central conflict in society.

a.white vs. black c. nation vs. other nation
b. poor vs. rich d. good vs. bad

2. Mario picked up the ________ for his sick daughter.

a. money c. biscuit
b. lugao d. apple
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Quiz time
3. People who employ laborers and exploit the working class for their profit are called,
________.
a. colonizers c. bourgeoisies
b. proletariats d. philosophers
4. They wanted to kick out Mario for any reason to bring their own men in the business.
a.His employer c. His co-workers
b.His friends d. His wife
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Quiz time
5. What is the indication that Mario is belong to the working class?
a.He has a criminal record
b.He relies on his wage to suffice their needs
c.He left his family and joined his former co-worker
d.He will do anything for his sick daughter.
e-Course Activity Marxism Drama Assignment

Watch the drama written by Anton

1
Chekhov entitled, The Bear Your
Assignment is…
Look and take note for the
2
elements of drama that you can
find in the play
THANK YOU!