The Relationship Between Maternity and War as Illustrated in “Mother Courage and Her Children.”

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Discuss briefly the relationship between maternity and war as illustrated in Mother Courage and Her Children NU Bertolt Brecht shows in Mother Courage and Her Children how a mother s love and war cannot exist together Mother Courage loves her children Eilif Swiss Cheese and Kattrin But war destroys them one by one The play shows the painful clash between maternity and war A Mother s Love against Recruitment In the Prologue Mother Courage travels across Poland with her wagon She sings with her children Here s Mother Courage and her wagon Hey Captain Let them come and buy But the Sergeant and Recruiting Officer take Eilif Mother Courage cries This moment shows maternity fighting against war She wants to save her son but war snatches him away Maternity and Bargaining for Swiss Cheese Swiss Cheese becomes paymaster So Mother Courage is proud She says Don t forget they made

you paymaster because you re honest When he is captured she tries to ransom him But she bargains too long trying to save money The soldiers shoot Swiss Cheese Here maternity loses to war again A mother s love cannot defeat her business instinct War takes her son Kattrin s Sacrifice and the Lonely Mother Kattrin is mute but her mother loves her deeply In the last scene near Halle Kattrin climbs a roof and beats a drum to warn villagers Soldiers kill her Mother Courage is sad The final tragedy shows maternity crushed by war Mother Courage loses all three children Yet war goes on In Mother Courage and Her Children maternity and war cannot live together Eilif is recruited Swiss Cheese is executed and Kattrin is killed Mother Courage s love fails before the power of war Brecht shows that war destroys not only nations but also mothers and children

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