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The following Scene, scene 6, that I am going to comment on, in which the

chaplain is holding s speech, is set in Ingolstadt, in Bavaria in 1632.in this scene

Mother courage is attending the funeral of the late Imperial commander Tilly

when discussions about heroes of the war and about the duration and the end of

the war begin to break out. While mother Courage and her daughter Karin are

counting the amount of goods they have still on their cart and stocktaking, the

chaplain and the regimental clerk are playing a board game together.

During the discussion about war, in which mother courage, the clerk and the

chaplain are involved, they all three agree that the war is continuous, but they all

have completely different feelings about the benefits and bad consequences of

war as in each of their lives war plays a different role.

The chaplain does not associate bad, cruel or especially negative things with war

as he is used to it and regards......

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