HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fokker E.Ii
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Lecture 10 notes: new normal is to survive by one"s wits and turn a profit for oneself, needs of the war pre-determine most things and especially our choice agency b. i. The values in the play: a person"s principles or standards, was is a continuation of business by other means making the human virtues fatal even to those who exercise them, heroism c. i. For brecht, it"s not that the characters are unvirtuous; rather, its that under these conditions, their virtues are corrupted c. ii. After you don"t need the heroism anymore, people have a hard time turning it off c. iii. No need for any kind of heroism when war is a continuation of business by other means : honesty d. i. His goal of protecting the cash box gets him killed: compassion e. i. Kattrin saves a child from a burning house, mother courage tells her to give it back to its mother e. ii.
