Mother Courage movie

-       Kevin Kline (actor)

-       Jeep was a great way to bring it into a contemporary time period

-       “Man equals Man”

-       He changed the way German sounded

-       Once he became famous and “made it” he spent years studying Marxism

-       Research is in everyday new papers

-       “She’s looking for the war”

-       War’s good business “If it’s business, it makes sense.”

-       Fear was existent in the city, helicopter, actors were exhausted,

-       Everyone was constantly spoken about war

-       Fear of the atomic bomb

-       The only way to protect her family I to make her business thrive.

-       Her bargaining killed her son but by paying all that money to save her life would’ve condemned her whole family to death

-       Was afraid that his plays would never been seen by a German audience

-       McCarthy Trials – pretended to be bad at English so that he wouldn’t be asked as many questions

-       Enormous attention to detail
- Brecht had the emotional moments but has other elements to draw the audience away from the audience
- Brecht always have a tragic hero who is always killed by their virtue.
- He doesn't blame the characters.
- it's not the characters' faults. It's the society that they are in
- We're all gonna die unless we come up with a solution together
- Has the image that we see everyone "image of mothers over the bodies of their children saying why"
- She knew that she would lose her children
- Duality that occur in his plays (in everything: theme, character, plot, etc.)