The Book Mother courage is a book written by Bertolt Brecht, the book was written in Germany. This German play writer’s ideas had changed the face of theatre perpetually. The author had begun writing the play in Denmark in 1938, scrutinizing the reason why people are ready to give up their live although knowing they are going to die. Anna Fierling is the protagonist in the play; she is familiarly called as mother courage. She lives off by driving a cart from camp to camp, flogging boots, rum, sausages and pistols to the soldiers, negotiating, lying and cheating, and sometimes even thriving. She is unsentimental, canny and shrewd. She is brave lady who does not believe in religion and ideology, her only thought in life would be about surviving.
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The book mother courage conceives that War is just “continuation of business by other means”, as mother courage lives of war as small business woman with her wagon .The minor characters Chaplain, Cook and Yvette Pottier are the ones who take part in mother courage’s small business. Chaplain in mother courage plays role of being a “feedbag” for mother courage, the chaplain is a person who is faithful to the Swedish monarchy. The cook is Peter the puff, who firstly was the cook for the Swedish general, and later becomes mother courage’s soul mate. The other minor character Yvette Pottier also lives off war being a camp prostitute. Yvette pottier personality completely switches during the play from the friend to manipulative prostitute to a business woman. The author’s purpose of writing the play is to portray that in war time “you need a big pair of scissors in order to get you …show more content…
The discussion about war between Cook, Chaplain and mother courage, unveils a cynical view of the leaders motivation and indeed their actions and the consequences which follows with it. Mother courage figures out that war is a continuation of business when she is with the Cook and the Chaplain, she express this by saying “to go by what the big shots say, they’re waging war for the almighty god and in the name of everthing that’s good and lovely. But look closer, they ain’t so silly. They’re waging it for what they can get. Else little folk like me wouldn’t be in it at all”
Yvette Pottier the camp prostitute, After the Catholic’s arrest Swiss Cheese, she successfully convinces and picks up a colonel to give her money with which to buy Mother courage’s wagon, she tries her best to finish the deal but unfortunately the deal was closed due to the death of Swiss. When Yvette re-enters in scene 8, being fatter, richer and a widow of a colonel, mother courage takes Yvette with her thinking that she can make profit with the help of Yvette connections to regiment, Which again tells us how interested mother courage is to make a
The book mother courage conceives that War is just “continuation of business by other means”, as mother courage lives of war as small business woman with her wagon .The minor characters Chaplain, Cook and Yvette Pottier are the ones who take part in mother courage’s small business. Chaplain in mother courage plays role of being a “feedbag” for mother courage, the chaplain is a person who is faithful to the Swedish monarchy. The cook is Peter the puff, who firstly was the cook for the Swedish general, and later becomes mother courage’s soul mate. The other minor character Yvette Pottier also lives off war being a camp prostitute. Yvette pottier personality completely switches during the play from the friend to manipulative prostitute to a business woman. The author’s purpose of writing the play is to portray that in war time “you need a big pair of scissors in order to get you …show more content…
The discussion about war between Cook, Chaplain and mother courage, unveils a cynical view of the leaders motivation and indeed their actions and the consequences which follows with it. Mother courage figures out that war is a continuation of business when she is with the Cook and the Chaplain, she express this by saying “to go by what the big shots say, they’re waging war for the almighty god and in the name of everthing that’s good and lovely. But look closer, they ain’t so silly. They’re waging it for what they can get. Else little folk like me wouldn’t be in it at all”
Yvette Pottier the camp prostitute, After the Catholic’s arrest Swiss Cheese, she successfully convinces and picks up a colonel to give her money with which to buy Mother courage’s wagon, she tries her best to finish the deal but unfortunately the deal was closed due to the death of Swiss. When Yvette re-enters in scene 8, being fatter, richer and a widow of a colonel, mother courage takes Yvette with her thinking that she can make profit with the help of Yvette connections to regiment, Which again tells us how interested mother courage is to make a