... authorities were chasing him. He attempted suicide in the opening segments of the chronicle because he couldn't "bear the idea...of being torn from [his] home habits and every one [he] knows" (159). In Brecht's play, Mother Courage has three children and her only source of income is the profit she gets from selling the wares she carries on her wagon. Her children do what they can to help the old woman in her constant struggle for financial stability. MC and Cottard manipulate their terrible conditions for their own personal gain. Cottard is pacified by the plague because the police are not in pursuit of him anymore. His leech-like behavior turns into a parasitic need for the plague. Without it he would again be surrounded with the grief, worry, and despair that initially led him to attempt to take his own life. Tarrou, a friend of Cottard, is keeping a journal ...

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