Essay About Heroes Of The War And Intensive Irony

Mother Courage
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The following Scene, scene 6, that I am going to comment on, in which the
chaplain is holding s speech, is set in Ingolstadt, in Bavaria in 1632.in this scene
Mother courage is attending the funeral of the late Imperial commander Tilly
when discussions about heroes of the war and about the duration and the end of
the war begin to break out. While mother Courage and her daughter Karin are
counting the amount of goods they have still on their cart and stocktaking, the
chaplain and the regimental clerk are playing a board game together.
During the discussion about war, in which mother courage, the clerk and the
chaplain are involved, they all three agree that the war is continuous, but they all
have completely different feelings about the benefits and bad consequences of
war as in each of their lives war plays a different role.
The chaplain does not associate bad, cruel or especially negative things with war
as he is used to it and regards it as something normal, like it was just a part of
his life. In his opinion people can also life on normal and survive during
wartime. To communicate this message to his readers the author, Brecht, uses a
very intensive irony as he even lets the chaplain glorifying the War and its
consequences, what adds even more irony. In doing so a completely opposite
image to how cruel and negative war really is and what consequences it has on
the country and its inhabitants is created. The chaplain says:” I d say theres
peace in war too”, which is an antithesis, because peace and war mean the
complete opposite. Brecht by using this strong contrast shows that he for himself
has doubts about the meaning for him, if it should be regarded as something
good or bad. But the main character of this story, Mother Courage, takes
advantage of the war, as it is always present, and for her it is a business that
provides her with the necessary money to survive, what for many people, who
suffer under the cruelty of the war seems to be wrong. For Mother Courage this
war is not just something normal but also something good and something she
could never life without, although many people die, even her own children, and
suffers because of the war.
The author tried to let his readers know that he is against