A dramatic movement in which the playwright distorts external appearances to portray deeper meanings is referred to usually as expressionism.
Explanation:
With a tragic vision of the human being, Expressionism, as the name itself raises, seeks to be an expression of the feelings and emotions of the author of the work. Thus, artists exaggerate and distort themes in their process of catharsis.
Revealing the pessimistic side of life, expressionism used art as a way of reflecting the existentialist anguish of the alienated individual, the fruit of modern, industrialized society, through the distortion of external appearances to depict deeper meanings.
