4/10/16-Single

This lesson was mostly theory as it was based on research. We was set the task of creating a PowerPoint/ word document of a historical war that we could apply to 'Mother Courage'. I was in a group with Alice and Joe. We decided we would apply World War 2 to Mother courage. An image that was of a bombed house in World War 2 made us think that this is why Mother courage could be travelling with her cart, because her house was destroyed and this is why she and her family have been made refugees. Also we came across picture of children being evacuated, this made us think that possibly Mother Courage's children could in fact be evacuees and not her real children. There were many other wars we could have researched and potentially applied to Mother Courage however we felt that World War 2 was a perfect fit for the era and style of play. As this was a Bertolt Brecht play, he could have been portraying what it was like in Nazi Germany using some of his experience when he was fleeing Germany. Even though it wasn't set in 1930's Germany, we know how Brecht set his plays in different eras so he couldn't be caught by the Nazi's for discriminating Hitler's actions
This lesson I didn't really learn anything new as we was just applying the play to a war.