Date of Award
4-1936
Degree Type
Bachelors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
George E. Vander Beke
Second Advisor
William J. Grace
Abstract
The dramatic instinct is a prime force in civilization; the need to give vent to pent-up emotion, to express joy of living, to put in material form the ideas that vex his spirit, has driven man to imitate and to create. Primitive people expressed this need in songs and dances. Civilization restrains and suppresses the voluntary expression of emotion that seeks outlet in various ways. But it cannot be wholly stifled. Man feels the need to seek excitement and emotional experience sometimes in the mere satisfaction of curiosity. This is a response to a need and desire felt everywhere and in all ages. All this so true of man, is still more true of the child, alive with surplus energy, possessed by a craving for excitement, seeking always for something new.
Recommended Citation
Soper, Edna S., "Plays for Young Children" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 1054.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1054
Comments
A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.