Futility

Wilfred Owen, having participated in the war, sought to express his own experiences to everyone. In his poetry, Wilfred Owen expresses the outrages and horrors of war and the compassion for soldiers who sacrifice their lives. Throughout the use of poetic techniques, Owen manages to convey the barbarism of the war with extreme realism and evoke in the reader much more than disgust and sympathy. Through the use of poetic techniques, he allows the reader to empathize with his situation, thoughts, and

“All Quiet On The Western Front” written by Erich Maria Remarque is a wonderful tale that expresses the theme of comradeship, dehumanizing effects of war, and the futility of war. All 296 pages are full of twists and turns, lessons to learn, and all the brutality of war. This anti-war book opens your eyes to situations you’ve never thought about. It shines a new light on battle that has never been documented before. “ All Quiet on the Western Front” is a coming of age book that teaches you many

variety of poetic techniques to allow the reader to empathise with his world, situation, emotions and thoughts. The sonnet form, para-rhymes, ironic titles, voice, and various imagery used by Owen grasp the prominent central idea of the complete futility of war as well as explore underlying themes such as the massive waste of young lives, the horrors of war, the hopelessness of war and the loss of religion. These can be seen in the three poems, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and

now known as an anti-war poet, for once, he had been a naive boy, who had been pressured by the propaganda and volunteered to fight in war. At first, he was thrilled to fight for his country. But soon, he started to recognise the brutality and futility of the war. The sceneries were so appalling, that it even challenged his belief in Christianity. In his poem, ‘Exposure’, he uses personification in the line,

Wilfred Owen joined the corps in 1915, at the tender age of twenty-two therefore his poems are testimonial, reflecting the gullibility evinced by many of the other young soldiers who fought in the World War. Consequently, Owen’s poems allude to a theme of the loss of innocence in the young soldiers as they were unprepared for the reality of what they would encounter. He also illustrates that the soldiers joined for materialistic reasons (e.g. titles, patronage) spurred in by the fervent propaganda

Victor acknowledges that “the human frame could no longer support the agonies that i endured” (Shelley 129) and this attests to the fact that he has to pay the price for his unnatural creation of life. Victor’s tale warns Robert Walton of the futility and imminent destruction that beholds his foray into the North Pole and this is amplified with nature’s active role in obstructing Walton’s path as an iceberg. When asked by Walton, to know more about the creature’s formation, Victor retorts, “ Would

Waiting for Godot show that Brockett nears correctness, but is not quite there. One thing is for certain: Waiting for Godot illustrates the inanity of everyday life. Inanity is defined as “silly and dumb”, but absurdism takes that to mean that life’s futility is funny. In the first act of Waiting for Godot, one can almost imagine the audience laughing and then thinking of the lines: ESTRAGON. What about hanging ourselves? VLADIMIR. Hmm. It’d give us an erection. ESTRAGON. (highly

literature. "The Masque of the Red Death" is a powerful allegory about the inevitability of death and the futility of trying to escape it. According to Pool, allegory always has a hidden meaning. Allegory always has two meanings: literal and figurative. This is shown in "The Masque of the Red Death," where the story can be interpreted as a warning about the inevitability of death and the futility of trying to escape it.

Through the poems Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori and Futility, Wilfred Owen uses the theme horror of war to convey the horrific mental and physical terrors that roamed WW1. Wilfred Owen emphasises on the mental and physical effects that war causes, dehumanisation and the loss of faith which resulted in Owens mind. Owen uses imagery in the poem Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori to demonstrate the terrible mental and physical effects that the war causes to the men. ‘Drunk with fatigue;’

Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is not simply a re-telling of the myth itself, but also an interpretation of the way in which the myth can be related to the life of humanity in general, and in particular to one's understanding and acceptance of the futility of life, which he does not consider to be negative per se. He looks at the nature of Sisyphus' character, the way in which he challenged and defied the gods, and the punishment he received as a result. However, he does not look at Sisyphus' fate