Similarities Between The Matrix And Suicide In The Trench

He captures “ a gidding feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it-like running a dead end maze-no way out-it couldn’t come to a happy conclusion”, in order to express how war can make one feel trapped (44). As a reader, this passage painted a picture that made me immersed into the story and experiencing the nervousness, claustrophobia and endlessness faced by the

War is always the worst tragedy of mankind in the world. We, as human beings, were experienced two most dolorous wars that were ever happened in our history: World War I and World War II. A young generation actually does not know how much hardship the predecessors, who joined and passed through the wars, undergo. We were taught about just how many people died in the wars, how much damage two participations in the wars suffered or just the general information about the wars. We absolutely do not know about the details, and that’s why we also do not know what the grief-stricken feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended.

From a simple ribbon affixed on the back of a pick-up truck with the words “SUPPORT OUR TROOPS” to tough-as-nails, stern Uncle Sam, war propaganda has always been present throughout history. But this type of propaganda differs from the actual experience of war; it glamorizes the entire idea to instill support. However, in the novel A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, his experience with war as a boy soldier is anything but glamorous. Young and with fleeting innocence, his form of propaganda came from the corporal of the army, ingraining the idea to “visualize the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you” (Beah 112). As his experience

Disparity of power in society is often created in the chaos of wars, in which it leads to abuse in power and loss of identity in individuals. Through the anti-war poem Homecoming by Dawe, responders have discovered and gained an insight on the power of war, which has impacted and led to the degradation of the ‘homecoming’ soldiers in ‘they’re…them’, as an anaphora illustrates the bitter attitude of the persona, merging and exhibiting Dawe’s dismissive perspective of war. The dominance of conflicts has impacted on the soldiers the most as it is denoted in the free verse lines, reflecting the unstructured senseless tragedy of war that stimulated their powerlessness. On the same hand, Dawe continues with his critical view of militarism in confronting

The effects of war on young people lead to the regression of humanity. This statement will be proved by referring to the novel by Eric Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, poems from Wilfred Owen, Anthem of the Doomed Youth,, “To any dead officer”, “They” as well as Christ and the soldier by Siegfried Sassoon, music lyrics from Roger Whittaker’s I Don't Believe In If Anymore, art pieces like Mealtime and Feeling wounded by Otto Dix and Egon Schiele’s portrait of Reserve Lieutenant Heinrich Wagner and portrait of an Officer. When referring to the above mentioned genres we will be focusing on the dehumanisation, demoralisation and disillusionment of war that leads to the regression of humanity.

The poem exemplifies the mental struggles soldiers face. For the soldiers who experienced the war, its truth is far from the expectation that it is a glorious adventure, in reality, which they quickly find out, war destroys the soldier's minds and bodies. Suicide in the Trenches betrays the theme of the unexpected truth of the war, by juxtaposing an innocent soldier boy with a man who ends his own life, because of the nature of the war, and the living conditions of the soldiers. War is often glorified in media and propaganda; however, the truth is that war is full of devastation, loss, and horror. Remarque illustrates the story of Paul and his friends joining the war after their teacher, Mr. Kantorek convinces them, that it will bring them glory to fight for their country.

War has been a terrible driving force throughout history. One can come to the conclusion that war is a gruesome experience that causes one to become blinded by anger, regret their actions, and feel immense amounts of sorrow for and towards others. The works of literature written by Erich Maria Marque, Thomas Hardy, and Denise Levertov help to shed light on these horrors of war.

The author of this excerpt describes the daily struggles he faces off the battlefield. For example, throughout the story, the author provides suggestions on how his family and friends can alter their living conditions in order to get a gist of what he experiences daily. Through the use of rhetorical strategies, the author is able to convey his hatred towards his unenjoyable experience, but the acceptance of the war.

‘They’ is a poem where Sassoon makes use of direct speech. This direct speech however is used in Sassoon’s favour to highlight the irony he wants to invoke; the hypocrisy of the church. When the bishop tries to justify war, the boys reply with the horrors of it. There is contrast between the heroic assumptions of the bishop and the soldiers’ reality of war portrayed by the ‘boys’ which undermines the bishop’s statement. Such comments made by these ‘boys’ which represent the soldiers are comments on other soldiers who ‘lost both his legs’, ‘stone blind’ and ‘shot through the lungs’. This type of battlefield imagery elicits pity for the soldiers. Meanwhile, the last line stated by the bishop points out the hypocrisy of the bishop with irony and satire. The poem shows pity for both the soldiers while also provoking pity from the reader in the fact that people believe the bishops who prompt men to go to war in the name of

War is a scandalous topic where peoples’ views differ as to what war is. Some people see it as pure evil and wicked while others think that it is brave and noble of what soldiers do. Looking at poems which had been written by people affected by war help show the messages which are portrayed. The two sets of poems which show different views of war as well as some similarities are “the Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The Song of the Mud” by Mary Borden. Both these poets use linguistic devices to convince the reader of their view of what the war is. Tennyson and Lovelace show how war is worthy

Even though the soldiers join the war as naive youths, the war rapidly changes them and they develop into young men. Surrounded by death, the boys are bound to foresee the fragility of their own lives and are stripped of the carelessness and brazenness of youth. The dreadful horrors around the boys bound them to consider a world that does not accommodate to their childish and simplistic view. They want to only see a separation between what is right and what is wrong, they instead find moral doubt. Where they had wanted to see order and meaning, they only found senselessness and disorder. Where they wanted to find heroism, they only found the selfish instinct of self-preservation. These realizations destroyed the innocence of the boys, maturing and thrusting them into their manhood.

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by Lily and Lana Wachowski. The film describes a future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix , a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to pacify and subdue the human population while their bodies heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source . In the essay I will be analyzing the mise-en-scene and Cinematography, I will link it to the film and show its significance in the film. Morpheus(Lawrence Fishburne) awakens Neo(Keann Reeves) to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of the human race has been captured by a race

Literature and poetry are a reflection of society. The words are reflected in numerous feelings that we can almost touch and can be deeply felt in its reach. Most poets expressed their perception and emotion through their writings. Unfortunately the art and poetry describes one of the worst things that human can do to one another. The legalized murder called "war." Hence, this type of self-reflection called "poetry" has help create new fundamental ideas and values towards our society. In this essay, I will discuss the issue of the "War Poetry" during the "Great War" along with comparing and contrasting two talented renowned poets; Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the