How we cite our quotes: (Scene, Line numbers)
Quote #10
MOTHER COURAGE: […] Better if you'd not told her nowt about your brother-in-law's kids. (XII, 22)
Kattrin is dying, after saving her mother and a town full of people. Now, you'd think her mother would be proud of her bravery. Instead, Mother Courage suggests that it wasn't Kattrin's strength of character, but her weakness and vulnerability that brought about her death. In one of the last moments of the play, Mother Courage still cannot accept an act of self-sacrifice.