Posted by mark on January 31, 19100 at 15:32:20:

In Reply to: historical and social - Mother Courage posted by Kate on January 27, 19100 at 06:41:17:

Kate
MC was written while BB was in exile in Denmark in 1939, just before he legged it to the USA. It was written as a warning to the Scandinavian countries not to sup with the devil of sm. BB said it is a play which demonstrates that 'war is a continuation of business by other means'. Throughout the play business transactions are conducted - she loses her three children one by one while doing deals. racist ideology is mocked in the opening scene when he children's various fathers are (half) remembered. It is set in the 17th century during a destructive European land war (largely Sweden versus Poland: Protestantism versus Roman Catholicism) but, of course, this is just another method of mocking a sacred cow of Capitalism and another exploitative method of social control - religion (the opium of the mes, as Marx said).
That should start you off.
Mark

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: Kate : MC was written while BB was in exile in Denmark in 1939, just before he legged it to the USA. It was written as a warning to the Scandinavian countries not to sup with the devil of sm. BB said it is a play which demonstrates that 'war is a continuation of business by other means'. Throughout the play business transactions are conducted - she loses her three children one by one while doing deals. racist ideology is mocked in the opening scene when he children's various fathers are (half) remembered. It is set in the 17th century during a destructive European land war (largely Sweden versus Poland: Protestantism versus Roman Catholicism) but, of course, this is just another method of mocking a sacred cow of Capitalism and another exploitative method of social control - religion (the opium of the mes, as Marx said). : That should start you off. : Mark

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