Mother Courage and Her Children -- dramatic elements, synopsis, analysis.

Mother Courage and Her Children By: Bertolt Brecht GENRE: Epic Theatre SETTING: Episode 1: A highway near a city. Episode 2: Two years later, the camp of the Swedish army at Wallhof, the general's tent and kitchen nearby. Episode 3: Three years later at an army camp. Episode 4: Outside an officer's tent. Episode 5: Two years later. In a devastated village. Episode 6: Inside Mother Courage's tent. Episode 7: On a highway, later. Episode 8: A camp, a day later. Episode 9: Fall, 1634, …

…lationships, Kattarin's rise into an idealistic selflessness is symbolized by the red shoes. These shoes mean two different things to Mother Courage and Kattarin. To Mother Courage, they symbolize licentiousness and sleaze, while to Kattarin they represent an ideal of beauty, prosperity, and womanhood. It is interesting to note, however, that Kattarin's selflessness is rewarded with death, while Mother Courage's relentlessly self-serving realism carries her through the war, albeit with a large amount of suffering