Brecht underlines the price she pays for her wealth with her "disfigurement," Yvette.

Kattrin is a
mute, but ironically she is one of the play's most emotionally eloquent characters.In the play's
penultimate scene, she is killed as she attempts to warn a town about animminent siege. She
bears out one of Brecht's favorite sayings: "silence sometimes makes themost noise."In the
midst of the long and bloody war, Mother Courage takes advantage in every way shecan to
peddle her goods and eke out a profit from the needs of those who want more and
thedeprivations of those who have too little.Mother Courage and the way she uses war for her
benefit but she loses her three children toit, the Sergeant sums it up in scene 1 when he says to
Mother Courage "What the war tonourish you, Have to feed it someting in return.
Context
:Brecht’s
Mother Courage and Her Children
was written and first produced in the 1940s, atime when Europe, and the world at large,
seemed upside down. Brecht’s homeland,Germany, had seen tremendous social and pol
20th-century play, greatest anti-war play
Mother Courage and Her Children
is rightly described as a piece of anti-warliterature.Bertolt Brecht was very open about his
pacifism even at the time of his writing ofthe play. He wrote the play in 1941 when World War II
was raging.The theme of the devastating effects of a European war and the blindness of anyone
hoping to profit from it. Brecht expresses the dreadfulness of war and the idea that virtues are
notrewarded in corrupt times.The play is not set in modern times but during theThirty Years'
War of 1618–1648, whichinvolved all the European states. It follows the fortunes of Anna
Fierling, nicknamedMotherCourage, a wily canteen woman with theSwedish Army, who is
determined to make herliving from the war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her
children, SwissCheeze, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the very war from which she tried to profit.In
Brecht's lifetime he experienced poverty and the horrors of war therefore he has strongviews on
both subject, these are clearly reflected in "Mother Courage and Her Children". The play has a
strong anti-war message and many of the main character are poverty stricken.
character are poverty stricken.