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Making the right decision in life is very important.Making reference to Bertolt Bretch's The Caucasian Chalk Circle,Write a composition describing Grusha's decision -making moments.

      

Making the right decision in life is very important.Making reference to Bertolt Bretch's The Caucasian Chalk Circle,Write a composition describing Grusha's decision -making moments.

  

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Martin
Many times we are constantly faced by situations where we are required to make important decisions that affect our lives. In Bertolt Bretch's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Grusha is faced with serious decision- making moments, which define serious decision making moments, which define her life and her personality.

When Grusha takes baby Michael,she makes the decision of her life. After Natella leaves,one of her women servants sees Michael and hands him to Grusha. She is told by several other people that it would be safer to simply leave the child .The cook goes so far as to tell her,"if he had the plague he couldn't be more dangerous." Grusha watches as everyone runs away.She then hides the child under a blanked and waits to see what happens.The fat Prince arrives with his soldiers ,who carry the Governor's head on a lance and nail it over the doorway,The Fat Prince remarks that it is too bad he was unable to kill Michael.After the soldiers leave,Grusha goes to sit down next to the child.She sits with the child all through the night until dawn.By that point she is seduced by Michael and so she takes him away.


The second decision is when she decides to go back for Michael after leaving him with the peasant woman.To save him,she hits the Ironshirt over the head with a log ,knocking him senseless and escapes with Michael to the mountains.

Her third decision is when she decides to adopt Michael and treat him as hers.She gets married ,thus breaking her promise to her boyfriend Simon in order to protect baby Michael.When she is confronted by the Ironshirts and must choose between claiming Michael as her child and losing Simon or disclaiming Michael and getting Simon,she chooses Michael,thereby sacrificing Simon.At this point,she has given away everything that she has to give in order to keep Michael.

The forth important decision is seen when she fights for the child in court,against the Governors wife . Michael is placed in the middle of a chalk Circle drawn on the floor and both women are ordered to take an arm. Adzak tells them that whichever woman can pull the child out of the circle will get him. Natella pulls hard and yanks the child out of the circle. Meanwhile,Grusha has refused to pull the child. Adzak justifies his decision the same way King Solomon did,by choosing the mother who does not try to harm the child. Grusha would rather lose the child to the real mother than harm him. Adzak orders them to make the test one more time. Again Grusha lets go of the child's arm Adzak then says that it is now obvious who the true mother is. He gives Michael to Grusha and advises her to leave the city.
marto answered the question on July 3, 2017 at 13:02

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