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Jean Genet

The Balcony

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

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Essay Topics

1.

As the three women in the play, how do the roles of Irma, Carmen, and Chantal differ?

2.

Does The Balcony have a hero? Why or why not?

3.

Despite the play’s setting in a brothel, sexual acts seem peripheral to the power fantasies of the men who use the prostitutes. What is the significance of this?