Vera Brittain

life and question what the cost of human life was impacted. While Vera Brittain memoir of Memory and Battlefield Tourism, recounts her pain felt as a survivor. The cost of war is not only a calculated number, it has a long-lasting effect on the survivors. Within Remarque’s excerpt from All

Sources; notably, the evolution of human rights, the resilience of religion and the status of gender roles. Human rights, religion and gender roles developed at different paces, in different locations, for different peoples. The experiences of Vera Brittain, Emma Mashinini, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Gloria Wade-Gayles, four women who lived through the era, typify these themes. Each woman possesses a relationship with each theme; from influence by one to affecting another. The varying significance

By reading both “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Testament of Youth”, we learn that World War 1 had a tremendous effect, not only on the men in the trenches; but essentially on everyone; of all genders throughout Europe and the World. Vera Brittains, “Testament of Youth” tells the tale of her experiences working as a V.A.D (Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse) in many areas, however in chapters five and six, she is stationed in London. She describes, in vivid details the struggles of working as a

and how text structures and stylistic devices help to emphasise war within poems. I will be reading and analysing the poems Perhaps by Vera Brittain in 1919 and In Flanders Fields by John McRae in 1915. Perhaps and In Flanders Fields are both a Lyric poem and are about the feelings of grief and sorrow for loved ones lost in war. Perhaps was written by V. Brittain in response to the death of her late fiancé Roland Aubrey Leighton, who was killed at the age of 20 by a sniper in 1915, only four months

the entire world, both economically and physically. Even more devastating than the physical destruction and economic losses were the experiences of the soldiers fighting this gruesome war, and its effects on them. According to Wilfred Owen’s poems, Vera Brittain’s account, and Erich Remarque’s novel, the warfare’s conditions and nature greatly affected these men in various ways. Not only did they suffer from physical losses, such as death of beloved ones, separation from families, and bodily injuries

Personal recounts of events can be more insightful to the details and facts than what can be found in the average history textbook. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain is one of these personal recounts. Her own story of her experience as a woman from Britain during World War I confirms previously known facts and brings new aspects into light. When Britain first entered there was a massive amount of support and volunteers to join the military. Both Vera’s brother and boyfriend were among the first

There have been many stereotypical views and misconceptions about the role of women during and after the age of revolutions. Although the role of women did change, it is important to understand their position before the revolutions in order to wager how their role changed and of course, to what extent. It would be unrealistic to assume that all women during this period fell into one category. There are many factors to consider and so it is vital to address how different types of women behaved in

On June 28th, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (Berenson 384). That same day Austria would declare war on Serbia, the assassination sparking the start of the First World War (Berenson 384). The war lasted a gruesome three years, ending on November 11th, 1918 when Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies (Berenson 441). Before World War I, no one had ever been involved in a conflict on this large of a scale with this much death and

adventure in some other place’, a feeling that was faced by most women on the home front. Men on the war front often suffered horrible deaths, many of whom, the bodies were never found. Their loved ones at home therefore had no closure. The lines of Vera Brittain’s Perhaps expresses the same idea when she says – ‘..though kind Time may many joys renew, There is one greatest joy I shall not know Again, because my heart for loss of You Was broken, long ago.’ Her poem expresses deep feelings

away and watch the war from the distance. Instead they sacrificed their young life to fight. They thought there is nothing much to lose, yet they still chose to die for their country because it was a worthy and honorable thing to do. “Perhaps” by Vera Brittain is a poem dedicated to her fiancé, who was killed in the war in 1915. She explains how time has passed, and her thoughts about getting over her fiancé’s death. Many people had lost their loved ones due to the war. Countless of soldiers die leaving