The Female Economic Independence in Mother Courage and Her Children

This research investigates female economic independence throughout the war in Brecht's play Mother Courage and her Children (1941). is a single mother alongside three children making sacrifices hustling to provide for herself not being dependent on male live but only personal wagon. The methods used prove perseverance achieve are through lenses of two materialist feminist theories first one Simone De Beauvoir taken from book Second Sex (2011). second theory belongs Charlotte Gilman Women Economics (1898). These analyze text spot whereabouts feminism how this character following what called feminism, even though it was written before theories. At end study, clear picture formed truly proved worthy title “Mother Courage” sense achieving or at least never giving up create financial goals be an independent working worst possible scenarios.