Mother Courage and Her Children
What metaphors are used in Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht?
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In setting the play during the Thirty Years' War, Brecht has chosen a time in which war is not exceptional but routine. Thus, metaphorically, he characterizes the routine life of capitalistic society as a life of constant warfare.
Mother Courage and Her Children