Synopsis: A women known as mother courage carries a cart around and sells goods and products to the soldiers at war. During the many years of war her children get recruited to fight in the army. The war causes all of her children to die and is also a main source of her income from selling merchandise. Her son Swiss Cheese is captured by catholics and shot. Her other son Eilif is put to death for killing peasants during the war. Kattrin is shot when trying to wake the towns people when she sees the Catholic army coming to attack. The play ends with a powerful scene of Mother Courage having to carry a much lighter cart because all her children are dead.
War does create bloodshed this is no secret. And there are many times throughout history where stories like Mother Courage can touch us and see the error of our ways. I am no hippie but war is fucked up. Yet, I know sometimes it is the only way to resolve disputes.
For mother courage the war was a great source of income but it was also a great source of loss. Its like an equivalent exchange. With all the good things about the war their is so much bad.
War in america has usually brought with it a booming economy. Now we are in war and the economy still sucks. People are dying and the war doesnt even have much of a message behind. Atleast during WWII their was a message. Their was a good and a bad. America was stopping someone undeniably evil.
Sure, terrorists are evil, but it seems like we just have young boys with their thumbs up their butts just trying to figure out what to do. I know very little about the war but I know it hasn't done anything good for us. The economy isn't booming, we havent stopped terrorism, we are just wasting money and young people.
I mean seriously, its just god damn retarted
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