Interesting

Mother Courage was a good play and an interesting one at that. I have always found stories set in war time fascinating. I enjoyed how Brecht showed what happened to a poor trades(wo)man and her children during a war instead of focusing on just the soldiers. In the beginning when Mother Courage was predicting everyone's death I was skeptical. I figured Eilif's was true, and there would be a way for Swiss Cheese to die, but I did not see Kattrin's coming at all. I also liked how in the beginning the song that Mother Courage was singing had the same refrain as the song the soldiers in the end were singing.

I did not like Cook. I think if the Chaplain had stayed then Mother Courage may have had a better life because the Chaplain cared for her well-being and Kattrin's while Cook didn't care for Kattrin at all and may not have liked Mother Courage that much to begin with.

Also, Mother Courage's name doesn't fit her, I think. I know she explained it, but throughout the play she seemed to do things out of necessity than courage. She also had a brutal philosophy on life in general. I think Kattrin deserves the name Courage more than her mother does. She was determined to warn the town of the soldiers arrival, and even when threatened, she kept playing until she they killed. That seemed me courageous to me.

I'm jumping about the play, I know, but I have another thing to point out. Did anyone else notice that the cooks song pointed out the virtues of the children? Courage = Eilif, Honesty = Swiss Cheese, and Charity = Kattrin. In the song, the men with the virtues died as well. Is this suppose to be another point of Brecht's? it's also foreshadowing of Kattrin's. But who belongs to the other virtues, wisdom and love of God? Is Mother Courage is wisdom and the chaplain love of God, then this means that everyone dies in the end. Perhaps I'm just making this up. Does anyone have an opinion on that?