| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 德國語文學系 === 87 === Literature explains, describes and reflects the life of people; the political organizations, such as the monarchy and other forms of government, rule the state and the people. Each one has its own business. At first sight there is no connection between these two. However, this essay aims at finding the interrelation between literature and politics because no one can escape the influence of politics, especially the observer of a society -- the writer. When a society undergoes a radical change, the writer who pays attention to the socio-political development will find out the change immediately. He will be mostly concerned with freedom of speech which each ruling organization permits. When the dictator seizes power, the writer suffers political oppression at once because the dictatorial regime intends to control the thoughts of its people and even forces the writer to be the producer of its ideology. The writer, who values freedom and truth above everything, will be forbidden to publish, suffer persecution and often be sent into exile. Although a writer lives in exile, he still holds the power of word as a weapon, with whose help he can criticize and reveal the oppressive control of the regime of his homeland. Writers being driven into exile proves the irreconcilable confrontation between literature and politics. In other words, we can say that literature written in exile with the view toward the homeland is the product of the fierce confrontation between literature and politics. With the purpose of finding this result, this essay will be divided into two parts, namely "the definition of the literature of exile" and "Bertolt Brecht's fight against the Germany of Hitler: an excellent example of the literature of exile". In the second part of the essay, we will especially interpret three Brecht's dramas The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Round Heads and Pointed Heads, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich in regard to the fuhrer, the ideology and the people under its terror.
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