Mother Courage And Her Children

Hidden Figures displayed integrity, persistence, and dedication to achieve things that may have been deemed impossible at that time. 1961, was a year where the workplace and schools were segregated, and colored individuals were oppressed to the point where they were not allowed to share the same bathrooms with Caucasian individuals.

The narrator’s background of education conflicts with the current situation of war that he is in. The narrator has “graduated in law from St. Petersburg University”, giving him higher ground among soldiers with not only the education he possess but also the moral capacity he has. His fellow soldiers are on the other side of the spectrum in relation to the narrator. They have endured the tragedy of war, giving them vulgar personalities that allows them to express ideas and thoughts with no filter: “go and mess up a lady . . . and you 'll have the boys patting you on the back”. These contrasting personalities and cultures has set up the narrator to get test his singular moral standings to fit in with the other soldiers. Otherwise, the narrator would have to endure embaressing behavior such as: “went over to my little trunk and tossed it out at the gate . . . [and] emitted a series of shameful noises”.

Set in a typical mental asylum in the 1970’s during the anti-Vietnam War protests and the feminist movement for women's equal rights, the play 'Cosi' by Louis Nowra deeply explores the themes of love and fidelity, in a society predominantly concerned with war and politics. Throughout the play, Nowra uses the play within a play, 'Cosi Fan Tutte', to convey his key values regarding the importance of love and fidelity in today's world, while questioning the necessity of war and condemning society's perceptions of madness itself. The playwright delivers these messages through a number of subtle implications and symbolic features which are evident in the story,

Bertolt Brecht was born in a German town called Augsburg, on the 10th February 1898. Before 1924, he continued to live in Bavaria where he studied medicine in Munich from 1917-1921. In 1918, Brecht worked helping at an Army hospital during the First World War, and in doing so, started creating his own plays. In this time, he wrote plays such as: ‘Trommeln in der Nacht’ (Drums in the Night – 1922), ‘Baal’ (produced in 1923) and his primary professional production: ‘Edward II’ (1924). After being so horrified by the effects of war he decided to travel to Munich (then following on to Berlin), where he would begin his desired career in theatre. Within this period, Brecht established a vicious hatred towards the middle-class which imitated the people (of that time) being so let down by their generations civilization which had been crushed after the end of World War I. Brecht was influenced by his friends with their Dadaist ideals; aiming to abolish any pieces of bourgeois art that had been condemned as a dishonest standard, from iconoclastic satirical pieces and mockery. Brecht was then educated on Marxist views by Karl Korsch in the late 20s. Korsch was a Marxist theoretician and a communist in the Reichstag who, in 1926, had been excluded and forbidden from the German Communist Party.

Man no longer exercises his essence as a species-being in productive labour for the good of others, but on the contrary, he becomes detached from his essence and the product of his labour is abstracted as a means to produce for the sake of capital. In this sense man becomes reduced to nothing but a machine; the more capital the product of his labour acquires, the more the worker will be encouraged to produce through the influence of wages. The appeal of this profit for the worker sustains his alienated state by further sacrificing his ‘body and spirit’ for the sake of his wages;

Making products in a capitalist system puts many people in a position that are repetitive and laborers end up going through the motions. They have one specialized job in producing the whole product. The labor does not give input into the purpose of design, distribution, and marketing of the product. According to his essay “ Alienated Labor,” Marx tells us the things we go through in a work under the capitalist society:

“The Perils of Indifference” Rhetorical Analysis In his moving speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, of 1999, Ellie Wiesel, a Jewish Holocaust survivor with firsthand experience of ethnic cleansing and oppression, strongly encourages his widely varied audience from around the world to promote change and ensure that they won’t make the same mistakes their ancestors had made 45 years earlier during World War II. Wiesel’s purpose is to convince the current and upcoming generations to protect their humanity and morality in order to prevent human suffering. He is attempting to achieve this goal by gaining his credibility and appealing to the audience’s sympathy, exchanging the use of concession and refutation, and referring to the suffering of

Hate is gasoline. Indifference is fire. In society, indifference is the force that ignites the true colors of evil to emerge - to cause the darkest decades known to man. The concept of indifference, in more ways than one, becomes a predominant force in the life of Elie Wiesel, author of the memoir Night. Wiesel provides a raw account of the Holocaust’s horrors and the devastatingly life-altering effect it had on his character, intertwining the concept of indifference and its crucial role in the events that transpired. The undertone of the theme of indifference within Night is represented symbolically within the characters Moshe the Beadle and Madame Schächter, through the examples of father and son relationships, and lastly in the development

Brechts work is based on the concept that theatre is a means of political persuasion for the masses. He sees the theatre as a tool to manipulate the audience, and to influence their day-to-day living once that have thought about issues raised during the performance.

Therefore, the work schedule of the majority of Americans is greatly time-consuming and restrictive in how their life is like. Employment is restrictive in the sense that it doesn’t allow for much free time for Americans to do things in their life how they would like. Hochschild states, “But without overstating the case, it seems true that capitalism is a cultural as well as an economic system and that the symbols and rituals of this cultural system compete with, however much they seem to serve, the symbols and rituals of community and family.” (Hochschild 187) Most Americans are employed around capitalistic ideas of efficiency. Employers require employees to commit long hours, days, and years of their life to working for them. Employers also seek maximum efficiency in the time that employees are working. This commitment that employees make to their employment takes away from things that they value as mentioned by Hochschild. Unfortunately, Americans are forced to deal with this because they want to establish economic stability for themselves. Furthermore, the work life of

America’s First Lady of Courage and Picturing History both presented individuals who faced many challenges. Helen Keller, the main focus of the first article, struggled with deafness as well as blindness, while Mathew Brady struggled financially. In the case of Helen Keller, the article stated that, “Helen’s parents knew they had to do something about her wild behavior. They hired Annie Sullivan to tutor her.” This was a critical moment in Helen’s life, as Annie helped Helen to learn how to more appropriately communicate with others as well as be able to spread the word that those who struggle with various disabilities could still manage to do great things.

In a world in which abortion is considered either a woman's right or a sin against God, the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks gives a voice to a mother lamenting her aborted children through three stanzas in which a warning is given to mothers, an admission of guilt is made, and an apology to the dead is given. The poet-speaker, the mother, as part of her memory addresses the children that she "got that [she] did not get" (2). The shift in voice from stanza to stanza allows Brooks to capture the grief associated with an abortion by not condemning her actions, nor excusing them; she merely grieves for what might have been. The narrator's longing and regret over the children she will never have is highlighted by the change in tone

The division of labour ensures that each worker only does one job, and the labour market decides which job any particular worker will do. During labour, the worker uses capital not under his own control. The capital available determines the nature of the work. On top of all this, the worker has no choice but to work, as wages are needed to provide the worker's means to life. Work is seen to be 'not voluntary, but forced' (3). This shows that in a capitalist society, the worker is separated from the decisions of whether or not to work, what the work will be, and what form the work will take. This alienation of labour is the separation of man from his life-activity.

The Life and Works of Bertolt Brecht In this essay I will consider the life and works of Bertolt Brecht, the famous theatre practitioner who has had such a dramatic impact on our understanding of the theatre and acting. First of all I will give a biography of Brecht because it is important to know the background of his life in order to understand the motives he had for writing and producing plays in the way he did. We will see a direct correlation between events in his life and the plays and techniques that he propagated. I will then move to explore the methods and techniques that Brecht developed, looking at how they came about and who influenced his work.

One could say Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children is a tragedy with an anti-war message. It follows the tragic events that surround Mother Courage during the 30 years’ war. Throughout the war, Mother Courage is trying to make a living through her cart. In the beginning of the play, she has all three of her children with her in the cart. However, one by one they get whisked away.