Religion in Mother Courage and Her Children: A Marxist Perspective

Abstract

The paper is a study of Brecht's Mother Courage and her Children as an investigation of the ideas of Religion as he aesthetically depicted them in the play. In doing as such, I draw from Brecht's social foundation; particularly from the way that he was a self-admitted Marxist. His readings of the works of Karl Marx have incredibly affected his ideological and also political convictions. The paper likewise analyzes how he utilized his hypothetical idea of estrangement to study the wonder of war and its association with religion. The paper finishes up with a summation of Brecht's state of mind towards both war and religion and its suggestion to the new thousand years.