Summary: Analysis Of Mother Courage And Her Children By Bertolt Brecht

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Analysis of ‘Mother Courage and her Children’ as an Epic Theater play? Bertolt Brecht, was born on Feb. 10, 1898, Augsburg, Germany and died on Aug. 14, 1956, East Berlin. He is a German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. His influence on writing Mother Courage and her children might be because of his father being a Catholic and his mother being a Protestant. He might have seen the difference in culture since his childhood. Brecht quoting bible through the mouth of chaplain can be understood as he was exposed to Luther 's German translation of the Bible. Mother Courage and Her Children is about a woman who travels …show more content…

This also helps her aim to live on war to be realized. Brecht wanted us to realize that all the characters lead us to have a different perceptive, without any kind of difficulty about the dramatic action. Brecht make sure that each scene can make the whole sense without even getting connected with other scene so that the reader would not judge the play. As it does not let the reader to predict the ending, Brecht leaves the ending open so that the readers can decide on their own endings. As one of the aims of Epic Theater is to talk about the imperfections in the society, most of the characters were called according to their jobs rather than names. This is mainly used to simplify the play. As Epic Theater’s nature is also to talk about the political condition such as the effects of the war, Brecht discloses the social condition of a person is entirely based on the condition of the political system. This not only causes misery to a person but also drive these to other people and make them struggle about

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