Conan Doyle's View Of War

Published in 2008, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins compiles a series of vignettes that detail his encounters as a reporter in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Released a year after, director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker also examines a harrowing account of the conflicts in Iraq. Both works poignantly present the unbridled violence that plague the region, and the futility of a war embedded within a vicious cycle of retaliation. Nevertheless, the portrayal of vengeance as a major motivating force of the war, as well as the war’s isolating and demoralizing effect on its witnesses, are better achieved in The Forever War. Contrary to the sole perspective of an American Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team in The Hurt Locker, Filkins includes multiple angles to explore each of the elements portrayed, and ultimately offers a more profound, subtle, and enduring explication than the film.

In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has

James Axtell’s “ The Invasion Within” and Jill Lepore’s “ The Name Of War” share the same realm as they both are excellent resources when it comes to the topic of Native American History. Though there subject matter is the same, there are stark differences between the two books that each give a unique perspective on the Native Americans and their involvement with the Europeans. Axtell uses “ The Invasion Within” to tell the sorrowful tale of the Indians. The trials and tribulations they went through are flushed out on each page as Axtell tells the story of the early beginning of colonial life, the naivety of the Indians as they met the Europeans, and the destructive path the Europeans eventually led the Indians on. Lepore tells a much different narrative in “ The Name Of War” where she examines the lives, actions, and thoughts of both the Indians and Europeans and eventually comes to a very educated conclusion. Life for both of them really sucked. The Indians were no better than the Europeans, and the Europeans were not mightier nor more pious than the Indians. In an essence, Lepore used her book not to show the contrasting differences between the Indians and Europeans (which is typically seen in most history books) but instead the similarities between the two that not many see. These authors approached the same topic but in such distinct ways which leads one to beg the question, how exactly are these books different?

Imagine watching EVERYTHING fall, just collapse before your eyes. The synging sensation so undeniably torturing, that you almost feel as if it were calling your name. Beckoning you to come closer, almost with a mocking tone. Death and destruction reaching out to you with their malevolent intentions and relentlessly grasping for you with ice cold fingers. This was the spine chilling notice of which forcefully encouraged James Doolittle to take part in the fiery horse called war. Doolittle knew, he would of course become involved in the aviation industry, and he was later known as the first man not only to fly across the world in less than twenty four hours, but he did so in less than twelve! Although, for someone of his audacious nature,

“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world” (Remarque 132). These are just a few things that soldiers see every single day. Just imagine being drafted in World War I and experiencing these horrors that war makes soldiers go through. In the beginning, soldiers start off as a joyous, typical men and at the end they become damaged and traumatized. War morphs people’s point of view and persona when they come out of war. This is what Paul Baumer had to encounter in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. In the novel, the story is told by Paul Baumer’s point of view in World War I. As the reader, you get to see the different parts of war

Over the course of human existence, war has been used as a way to support group’s or nation’s ideas for proof that they can fight for what they believe in. After going through the process of war, many people suffer tremendous lose or do not agree with the politics which can cause people to split into two different groups, pacifists or militarists. One examples of this come from two different authors, a militarist by the name of Friedrich Von Bernhardi and a pacifist by the name of Margaret Meade. Both of these authors believe in different ideas and with Bernhardi’s source, “War a Biological Necessity”, and Margaret Meade’s source of “On War” this essay will compare and contrast their colliding ideas to inform the reader about which author they

I do not think that KV is telling us in this novel what it could be different.As I remember in the first chapter KV implies that there is nothing intelligent to mention about the massacre. The novel ending suggests that bird-talk plays a relevant role during the whole story because it is the only subject throughout the whole story that talks about war. By doing this, KV tries to make sense as anyone’s talk about war. Vonnegut maintains the silence about war on purpose and leaves it after the massacre. This way readers can have the feeling that the majority of characters do not care about war and massacre, except the bird. He implies that this subject is meaningless for people but ironically important for the bird. It is like if animals

What does Tim O’Brien wants us to understand about war? One thing is that in war you will feel fear. Second, decisions decide what your fate will be. Last, fear will make decisions for you.

Poe's detective fiction or mystery fiction can best be felt in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is one of the best knows detectives in the history of literature. His fame can be spotted in the books that have been written and the movies that have been produced about Holmes. Poe's works were able to influence the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which he based the character of Sherlock Holmes off of one of Poe's characters whose name was Dupin who was used in the mystery story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The similarities between the two characters are quite grand. “Both are solitary men who prefer to live quietly in either isolation or in the company of one close companion.”(“Nineteenth Century Influenced Poe”). Both men also tend to shift to the bottom of their mysteries without a large amount of clues that other detective writers appear to have in their stories. The impact that Poe has had on authors and stories cannot be matched. His stories have provided a model for future authors to use, in the hope of growing the notoriety of mystery fiction or the horror genre.

Contrarily to Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five which concentrates on the atrocity of war and destructiveness war has on the individual, Dr. Strangelove looks at its evilness from a technological and military point of view, emphasizing on the senselessness of war. This film does not romanticize war nor does it shed light on the truth, however its satirical edge exposes the terrifying possibility and the consequences of accidental nuclear warfare. Kubrick demonstrates the wickedness and destructiveness of war throughout the film by exhibiting that technology amplifies human cruelty. The evilness of war is shown through the willingness of the generals to participate in all out nuclear war, they have no regard for human life. For instance, in one

In the war, the men are supposed to see the opposing side as the enemy. They are supposed to see them as these beings that want to kill them when the other side is human just like them. This is shown in the book when a Frenchman falls into the trench and Paul eventually sees that he is human. At first he sees the guy as something he has to kill in order to survive, but after he hurts him he has to deal with the fact that he just hurt a human being. Middleton further explores this by stating, “Only when Paul stops seeing a face-and instead seed disconnected body parts, a head, a hand, but quite pointedly not a face-does he respond with the self-protective mechanism of extruding violence towards the Other” (Middleton). This happens because the

Why do we go to war? to protect friends and family and allies to keep the peace between countries and nations, to protect history culutre and indpendece from one another, to keep their own.

During the 1800’s, concept of realism, or portraying life accurately as possible, as well as the concept of naturalism, or suggesting that events that take place are out of one’s control, were both very popular concepts that were portrayed in art and literature. In the passage, “An Episode of War”, both of these two concepts seem to be present, but the concept of naturalism seems to be more accurately portrayed since it is emphasized consistently throughout the beginning, middle, and end of the passage. The idea of naturalism is clearly emphasized right when the lieutenant gets shot, as he realized himself that he had no control over what had just happened to him. “Turning his eyes from the hostile wood, he looked at the sword as he held it

Power is a common tool used by Stanley Motts, he is given the task of creating a “fake war”.

In the time period of last ten years, many changes have been observed in the nature of Warfare from being aggressive towards more argumentative. There are various views and debates among the nature and character of the wars and the debate continues to grow with time. The several reasons of changes can be attributed to the technological advances and other situational changes. This essay is going to shed light upon whether the nature and character of war has been changed in the course of recent years or it continues to be the same as it was years ago.