The image of courage in H.J.C. Grimmelshausen’s and B. Brecht’s art world

Abstract

The appearance of the image of Courage in German literature, its peculiarities in the novels by H.J.C. Grimmelshausen "Contrary to Simplicio" and its transformation in the Brecht's drama "Mother Courage and Her Children" are analyzyd in the article. Both works are connected with the CourageТs image, an enterprising woman, who tries to survive in a whirlwind of the Thirty Years War (1618Ц1648). Having imitated GrimmelshausenТs colorful image of the woman in the war, Brecht divides it into two images of a canteenkeeper, who thirsts passionately for a monetary gain, and of a mother, who is lack of trepidation and warmth to her children.