"Mother Courage," by playwright Bertolt Brecht, takes place in Europe during The Thirty Year War of 1624. This play is an epic drama, which is when the author gives loosely to not at all connected events. That means that there is not a specific order of events such as a rise climax and fall. This style is used to keep the audience objective so the author can deliver a message; in this case it is an anti- war message. This is a good example of epic theatre because it gives multiple events, avoids attachment from the audience by remind them it’s a play, and it attacked a social issue to raise awareness. In this play, the reader is presented with multiple events in Mother Courage’s life. The play starts with an argument between Courage and The Sergeant because tries to recruit Eilif into the war. Next, the play goes to Mother Courage following the Swedish army, and eventually seeing her son. The play jumps year to the next with her children going through traumatic experiences, resulting in the death of her oldest son and Mother Courage moves on. The play skips two more years, then to a funeral in 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, and the last scene is where her daughter dies. The only traumatic experiences that explicitly happen to Courage is during peace time, because that’s how she makes her living. All of the events of the play are separate, unrelated events that happen to the same person. This play avoids audience attachment because it does not allow the audience the opportunity to understand the development of the characters. The audience is only given snippets of the characters life. There is no real insight to the characters true personality or inner thoughts for the audience to grasp on to and humanize to the point of feeling empathy. The audience is given enough to see what is going on and what the issue is. Also, the author reminds the audience this is a play by lighting technics and references to the audience. This helps detach