What is the significance of the songs in The Caucasian Chalk Circle?

They propel the plot?

to flashback events

To flashback on events, and they also propel the plot.

They give information of the current and next events,they also give clear description of the play like the killing of Georgi Abashwili.

songs are used to advance the plot, summarize current and previous happenings. It is also a form of entertainment as well as an important stylistic device.

It provides you with sympathy.

Sympathy is a good one Jermajesty, but I don't think that's what its signifignizing in The Caucaisan chalk circle i think it is providing you that is advancing the plot, summarize current events and previous happenings and it forms entertainment as well as important stylistic events

you are copying

songs introduce characters eg:Georgi Abashwili,Azdak, etc

They play a major role in showing the events that occur, especially the ones whose direct speech is not given

Well you all seem like you're on the right track... but I'm not quite sure that's even right. I mean, the song propels the plot? What do you mean by that? I don't understand... :(

Amanda Minear, my name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PROPELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL DA PLOTTTTT.

The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play consisting of a prologue and five scenes by Bertolt Brecht, first produced in English in 1948 and in German as Der kaukasische Kreidekreis in 1949. The work is based on the German writer Klabund’s play Der Kreidekreis (1924), itself a translation and adaptation of a Chinese play from the Yuan dynasty (1206–1368).

Brecht’s play is set within the context of a dispute over land claimed by two communes in the Soviet Union after World War II. The main action of the play consists of a parable that is performed to celebrate the decision in the dispute. The parable, set during a feudal insurrection in the 13th century, concerns the struggle of two women over the custody of a child. The dispute between the governor’s wife, who abandoned the child during the insurrection, and the young servant who saved the child and cared for him is settled by an eccentric judge who places the child in a chalk circle and declares that whichever woman can pull him from the circle will be granted custody. When the servant, not wanting to harm the child, lets the governor’s wife have him, she is awarded the child, having demonstrated greater love than the natural mother.