Brecht, Mother Courage

The author Brecht, who wrote Mother Courage is amazing! The whole time I was reading I was so infatuated by the text, that I had no problem concentrating. I felt that throughout this play, the true horrors of war were really shown and had great exhibitions of the reality of this time period. It was very heart felt to me, when this mother ends up loosing all her children.  Not only is she poor, slowly starving, yet one by one her children are ripped away from her, and brutally murdered. She looses a potential love affaire, a real chance at life, and all three of her children to the war. This story is not so shocking to me, I feel as though this whole play really reflects how disgusting and harmful violence is. In the end of this play, whole villages were burnt to ashes, people everywhere were starving…. Mother Courage even talks about how her daughter has a head full of lice, that is really how dirty this situation is. Not only did I feel that it reflected the hygienic situation well, this play spoke of the luting soldiers did, the raping of women, and even the battering of women. I thought that this is one of the few plays I was able to read, all the way through without being bored. I was constantly left wanting to know more, wanting to know if she would ever see one of her boys again, even though I knew in the back of my head they were done for. Such heroic characters, always sacrificing for someone else, the ultimate selflessness. This play is real, it reflects a real time period, and it is so well written, I loved it!