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Title	:	Mother Courage and Her Children
Author	:	Bertolt Brecht
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 112 pages
Published	:	October 7th 1996 by Arcade Publishing (first published April 19th 1941)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Theatre. Fiction

Mother Courage and Her Children

Bertolt Brecht

Paperback | Pages: 112 pages

Rating: 3.65 | 14886 Users | 356 Reviews

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Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes -- her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in the literature of drama.

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Original Title:	Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
ISBN:	155970361X (ISBN13: 9781559703611)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Anna Fierling, Kattrin Haupt, Eilif, Swiss Cheese, Yvette Pottier, Cook, Chaplain

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I read a lot of books this year with the same message: war is absurd, war destroys everything and afterwards, no one knows exactly what they were fighting for. I don't even know why I read so many books on the subject, I usually really don't like WWII or generally war literature, it just makes me deeply uncomfortable and depressive. I've been avoiding Anne Frank for the last 5 years for example, although it is patiently sitting on my shelf.However, once again, Brecht is different, different than

We read Mother Courage in school, and I didn't like it. I thought it was exaggerated, even from the perspective of the raging wars that Brecht could refer to. Which parents would sacrifice their children first?And now I sadly have to announce that I understand Mother Courage. The generation born immediately after the Second World War seems to have forgotten or maybe never known the longterm effects of irresponsible egocentrism, and they are happily sacrificing a whole planet to keep their

I read this 40 years ago or more. Coming back to it, I realised how much I had missed the first time round, and how powerful a play it is. Written by Brecht in exile just before the Second World War, and given its first performance in Germany in the late 1940s, his attempt to tackle questions such as 'mitmachen'/collaboration and 'war as business' entertain his audience/reader as well as stimulating them to profound reflection. He does not give clear answers. I think his intention is not to

Mother courage and her children is a book that takes place in 1624, during a time of war. In the beginning of the book, mother courage pulls up to a sergeant and recruiting officer who are trying to recruit soldiers into the swedish army because they are campaigning in Poland. Mother courage has a daughter, Kattrin, who is dumb, and two sons, Eilif and "Swiss Cheese". So anyways they pull up in a wagon to the recruiting officer, and he tries to recruit Eilif into the army. Mother Courage tells

Brecht's works were never intended to be aesthetically pleasing, nor were they meant to be witty. Their sole aim was to teach and instruct the common man in particular, this common man who is too emotional and blind to be able to draw a lesson from a classical Aristotelian play.Brecht's "Verfremdungseffekte" or "alienation effects" keep the audience watchful and attentive. In his plays, there are always actors addressing members of the audience (breaking the fourth wall), others speaking from



A play of devastating power and unbearable structural symmetry, as Mother Courage, a small time war profiteer fails to learn anything from a sequence of tragedies and continues onwards hoping to find business opportunities, whereas in fact it's only the rich who can make a profit from such misery. Morality and politics and truth are all identical in this magnificent work.