Essay about Discussion of Themes in Journey's End by R.C Sherriff

The action cuts between two settings: a television studio and a Melbourne motel room. The opening scene shows Bridie re-enacting the kowtow, a tribute to the emperor of Japan. (Bridie stands in a spotlight. She bows stiffly from the waist, and remains in this position). Stage directions allow the readers to visualise exactly how the composer wants it to be performed. The reader is able to share their experiences, and feels engaged with Bridie at this point. Misto uses photographic images, projected on a screen behind Bridie to support the dialogue. [On the screen behind Bridie are projected several 1940 posters for the Women’s Army. These are followed by photographs of the Australian army nurses disembarking in Singapore]. This allows the reader to feel included into the play, and creates an emotional impact by reminding us that although the play is fiction, the stories themselves are real, and real people who suffered in this way. Wilfred Owen’s first line of ‘the Send-Off’ illustrates the soldiers singing happily, heading to defend their country. ‘Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way to the siding-shed’. Owen opens the poem with this powerful visual line to display the juxtaposition present in the happy soldiers and the ‘close, darkening lanes’. This line reflects the soldiers being sent to their death, and we as the readers are able to understand that Owen points

Sherriff utilises Hardy to demonstrate the distinction between the heroic image of Stanhope that Osborne paints when he says, “How is the dear young boy? Drinking like a fish as usual?” Ironically, these characteristics in Stanhope cannot be seen as discrediting by the audience, as he himself picks up on them, and is repulsed by them. We see this when Stanhope talks of Raleigh’s sister and says “she doesn’t know that if I went up those steps into the frontline ' without being doped up with whisky ' I’d go mad with fright”. Raleigh “loves” Stanhope, yet he despises what he has become.

The novel dramatizes these aspects of World War I and portrays the mind-numbing terror and savagery of war with a relentless focus on the physical and psychological damage that it occasions. At the end of the novel, almost every major character is dead, epitomizing the war’s devastating effect on the generation of young men who were forced to fight it. These men in the novel are subject to physical danger, as they could literally be blown to pieces at any moment. This intense, physical threat also serves as an unceasing attack on the nerves, forcing soldiers to cope with instinctive

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Journeys End was written with the intention of “letting the war speak”. The lives of the officers on the front line during 1917 are examined. A key theme that is explored throughout the play is the reactions of the mind and body, under the stress of the war. Each character represents the weakness of the human being in an individual way, but the character on which frailty is mainly focussed is Stanhope.

Literary Analysis Laura Hillenbrand’s novel Unbroken has lots of key literary strategies that all contribute to the overall identity of the story. Even though one may be lost in the plot of the book and not realize the in-depth elements that Laura installed in the book, they are definitely there. From setting, to characters, to symbolism, to conflict, count on it being in the novel. Part of a novel’s legacy in many peoples’ opinion is how a book can subconsciously use literary elements without the readers’ knowledge due to how suspenseful or intriguing the book may be. Time to take a look and see how Laura did in Unbroken.

“Journey’s end”, a play written by R.C Sherriff he describes the horrendous effect of war on the soldiers. They play was written after Sherriff was sent home wounded in 1917. The play gives you an idea about the life of soldiers in war and how they survive; it portrays their feelings and emotions being there while witnessing the misery. Being an officer, R.C Sherriff understands the feelings and emotions of the officers in war. The three characters: Stanhope, the leader of company “c”, Raleigh and Hibbert which are two officers from the same company are affected by war and the change of circumstances. R.C Sherriff successfully shows the horrific effect of war on the officers by changes in their personality.

Owen does this again through the aural imagery, ‘the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; and bugles calling for them from sad shires’. This shows the effects of war on the soldiers and causes an emotional connection between them in the reader which therefore enforces the harsh reality of war. Both of these aspects challenge the reader’s perspective on war as they both contradict the glorification it receives through propaganda.

In “A Worn Path” an old black woman is seen walking through the forest to get medicine for her grandson. Eudora Welty puts the hunter, the doctor’s office, and aspects of the journey itself in Phoenix’s path to symbolize the ongoing struggle of the African American community to gain freedom in post-slavery American society. At the end of her journey, Phoenix obtains medicine that admittedly will not cure her grandson, but also offers the possibility of future healing and provides the means to bring some unexpected hope back to her grandson.

The theme of this story is to show that war impacts everyone a certain way. I think the author wrote this to explain how it feels to be forced into war. This story can teach people that your comrades are always there for you and that they are all essential. I don’t think the theme was very obvious until the very end of the

The impact of war upon men’s relationships is presented rather differently by Sherriff in Journey’s End, the relationships seem to suffer under the pressures of war rather than flourish as Hilliard and Barton’s do in Strange Meeting. When Raleigh arrives, he calls it ‘an amazing bit of luck’ to be serving Stanhope, who he has hero-worshipped throughout his adolescence. He believes that nothing will have changed between the ‘terrific pals’, telling Osborne of the summers that the men spent together and of the attachment between Stanhope and Raleigh’s sister. However, the excitement and happiness that Raleigh feels is not reciprocated by Stanhope who has already been fighting at war for

War is a deadly conflict between countries that contributes to millions of tragic deaths of courageous soldiers who sacrificed their lives, time and energy in order to defend their country. R.C Sherriff, who wrote the dramatic play “Journey’s End” which is considered a play close to reality, served as a soldier in World War 1. “Journey’s End” is a play which talks about the World War 1 and how war caused soldiers to change. Moreover, war is a frightening experience that no soldier can fail to recall. With a life-threatening war comes a dramatic change in character.

Journeys end is a book written by R.C. Sherriff, he wrote his book based on his own experience where he said that the people in the past, before the war 1 begins people used to motivate young people mostly to go to the war but he regrted going because it had a bad condidtion, it was so quit and useless. In this essay I’ll be talking abut Raleigh and Stanhope how the war affected them

The horror of war is deeply engraved into the book. After Martin was killed his colleagues were “holding back tears”. This reveals the trauma caused by the loss of a acquaintances, frequent in war. However, civilians often shrug this off and disregard the harrowing experiences servicemen had to cope with, much like in prologue, during which a civilian claimed “a good squaddie is a dead squaddie” and harassed Liam, a soldier who carried the immense grief

Gender, Trauma, and Culture in The Return of the Soldier In British fictionist Rebecca West’s 1918 novella, The Return of the Soldier, the author effectively offers keen insight into the realistic and devastating psychological and societal impact that the trauma of World War I has on the minds of both genders; this strain is analogous to feeling dead internally. This story depicts the realistic tragedy of how the illusion of someone collides with the reality of another, while exposing gender differences as far as cultural aspects and societal expectations, highlighting the traumatic effects of war on not only the returning soldier, but on the other female characters connected to him in various ways, as well. Although everyone is hurting from the war, women and men experience and try to cope with the trauma differently. Things are not always what they seem as the boundaries of what is considered socially and culturally acceptable at that time, will always function as asymptotes that bar the two spheres of gender to ever truly comprehend about the trauma of