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Mother Courage and Her Children (A heroine or a hyena of battlefield ¨C Discussion)
This play was written by Bertolt Brecht which should be the best known one. The protagonist of the play of ¡®Thirty Years War¡¯ is a business woman Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage. ...
From finance standpoint Mother Courage needs war. Mother Courage is called as a ¡®hyena of the battlefield¡¯. ... Mother Courage lives on the war as hyena lives on death. ... In scene 8, when peace does come and threaten to ruins Mother Courage¡¯s business, she feels such afraid and panic. ... Mother Courage needs war just like hyena needs corpse to feed and also like vermin needs a body to live with. ...
From conscience and liability of mankind standpoint, Mother Courage curses the war. ... In the opening page of the play, when a sergeant suggests Mother Courage to let Swiss Cheese join the army, Mother Courage actually threatens him with a knife. ... ¡¯ This ironical criticism discloses Mother Courage¡¯s understand of a war ¨C a trade between countries on the death.
Approximate Word count = 842
Approximate Pages = 3.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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