We also decided that we would discuss how war has negatively affected all characters. For example, Yvette had to become a prostitute at a young age in order to survive the war. Mother Courage lost all of her children to the war. We also highlighted how war has changed peoples personality traits. For example, Mother Courage had become ignorant and arrogant as the war goes on, money and sales become the main priority and her children's safety and well being becomes second most important to her. This highlights that war has actually changed Mother Courage for the worst.
Henri's group came up with a really interesting question. This was 'Do you feel Brecht intended on leaving the real world outside the theatre when you enter?'. I found this question very intriguing as it made me think. My answer to this question would be that I think Brecht didn't want you to leave the real world outside the theatre, his plays intended on informing the audience on what was occurring in their time and made them think about current situations they were facing i.e WW2. However, it could be argued that he may have wanted people nowadays who watch his plays to leave the outside world, outside of the theatre as the plays he wrote were about the past so he may have not wanted people to apply it to the present day. These are all of my interpretations of these questions that were used for debate so of course other people are going to have different views.
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