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The Balcony
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956
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Does The Balcony have a hero? Why or why not?
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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?
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