So after reading a quick synopsis on Mother Courage and Her Children as well as Woyzeck, I think that both plays really help to capture what we’re trying to accomplish. Just in quick summary Mother Courage and Her Children was a play about a mother during the Thirty Years’ War who sells off her children. One by one each of her kids die and she is left to continue on by herself. We should probably focus on the part where Mother Courage is discussing with Chaplain when the war will end because this is also a question that many are asking about our current wars.
On the other hand, Woyzeck, is about a soldier who signs up to assist a doctor with medical experiments. Unfortunately, while he is doing this his wife cheats on him, gets raped, and is killed by her husband who drowns while getting rid of the evidence. Here we should focus on the psychological aspect of what makes this guy snap. Maybe we should choose a scene where he is having one of his visions to help symbolize post traumatic stress disorder that many vets have to deal with.
In addition, both plays will help us to address the economic and social conditions that worn torn countries are left to deal with.
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