Commodification of War in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children

Abstract

This research examines the portrayal of war and its relation with human beings. The play, Mother Courage and Her Children brings the event of twentieth century German women situations. To uplift their life, the character like Mother Courage deals with problems and hurdles implemented by males. The desertion is the outcome of the norms, values and customs of patriarchy with which the sole duty of women is limited inside the four walls and domestic chores. Mother Courage in this way is thrown in the thirty years war time. She has great challenges for making the way-line. In the case her own sons and familiar soldiers rest in the opponent section. Her role here stands as suppressed but only allowed to move as an inventory seller in course of war. The only solution for her is to utilize it and maintain society, family and her. So, war is commodified in her hands like an object. In the light the playwright protests against unequal distribution, which should be liberated to get rid women from the difficulty chronicle of thirty years war time.