Social change is defined as an "alteration of the basic structures of a social group or society". Social change occurs when a group of people change their minds and beliefs about what is socially acceptable, this is usually due to an event or a change in public opinion. Brecht's epic theater can be used as a vehicle for social change as it is used to convey a message to the audience. Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Germany. As a child he was unpopular, with outspoken opinions, which were thought to be beyond his years of knowledge. To avoid the war he enrolled at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; however, in 1918 he was inevitably recruited and forced to work as a nurse. In 1933 Brecht was exiled because he disagreed with Adolf Hitler's views, resided in America, and was banned from German theaters after his books were burned and his citizenship was revoked. During his time in exile, Brecht wrote three of his most famous works; The Chalk Circle of the Caucasus (1944-1945), Mother Courage and Her Children (1938-1939) and The Good Woman of Szechwan (1938-1940). Brecht's plays were all written in the style of epic theater. A phrase coined by Erwin Piscator in the 1920s. Epic theater is a style of theater where the audience is positioned to think as opposed to realism where the audience is positioned to feel. The aim of making the audience reflect is to allow them to have a clear and impartial opinion on the situation depicted in the show. Epic theater essentially tells a story already familiar to the audience, in the form of a fable such as the Caucasian Chalk Circle or in the form or, recounting historical events. Verfremdungseffecte (Alienia E...... middle of paper .. ....in the story. The characters speaking in the third person undermine the romance between Grusha and Simon, as Brecht believed that the motivations behind the characters themselves were not important and only the story they were involved in was vital. Brecht's theater could be used as an effective vehicle for social change. His style of epic theater highlights social issues and portrays them in such a way that spectators have emotional connections and only clear, unbiased opinions, making it easy to make decisions about social justice and injustices in the world. Epic theater can be used to alter opinions as it educates people and severs the bonds of empathy so that people can use. clearly one's mind to make judgments. This would be helpful in changing social beliefs as people are prone to depend on emotions to make judgments which is sometimes ineffective.