Mother Courage, Lessons

What have the audience learned by witnessing Mother Courage's actions? The audience can either learn nothing or learn a lot by watching Mother Courage. This is the nature of Mother Courage. Brecht believed that an audience's emotional involvement in the characters and action tends to cloud its grasp of the play's message. In his so-called epic theatre style, he tried to shatter traditional stage illusions of reality by using various visual techniques and an unemotional …

…learned that Mother Courage was a single-minded woman who perused her money without any thought for the consequences. I think that the audience would either have learned nothing like Mother Courage or would have listened to the messages and become weary of how they could be in an endless pursuit of money and neglect their family. They may not have the same sort of outcome as Mother Courage but should still be weary of money.