THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Militarism
12 Apr 2014
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Context militarism: nations should maintain a strong military presence, and use it to defend/promote the national interest, war as glorious/patriotic. The swedish commander-in-chief count oxenstierna is raising troops in. The canteen woman anna fierling, known as mother. Courage, loses one son: tells the whole story beforehand so audience does not get caught up, techniques used, title/synopsis (how not what, presentational style, prioritizing human agency (esp. Irony in the reversal of peasants attitudes: emotional engagement with kattrin, no tight resolution, kattrins selflessness saves the town but the war goes on, the system has not changed, mother courage takes up wagon alone and continues. It challenges the audience to analyze the action and find better solutions. War make human virtues fatal to their possessors. Deadly virtues: swiss cheese, deadly virtue was honesty, kattrin, deadly virtue of kindheartedness, tries to save the villagers and gets shot, mother courage, deadly virtue is her love for her family, her efforts to support them, destroys them.
