During the American Revolution Soldiers weren’t the only ones who were at high risk of death. For example in the small town of Redding, Connecticut there was a variety of different opinions on war. Unlike like most happy stories and fairytales there was no good side, there might have been a good cause but no side was considered innocent. The Patriots were killing someone for a crime they did or looked like they were committing even if they were fighting for their side. The British were exaggerating situations to get a chance to execute a fellow loyalist or Patriot. In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier,…
Bayonet Charge has many examples of similes to give vivid detail to the reader, helping them to understand life at war whereas ‘Mametz Wood’ is run on metaphors to describe the delicacy of the remains of soldiers after war In ‘Mametz Wood, the metaphor ‘the china plate of a shoulder blade’ infers that the body piece which was found ‘under their plough’ was delicate, fragile and easily broken. Knowing the possible effect of the metaphor, we can suggest that the writer used this as a way of saying that even though the soldiers were tough and broad on the outside, the inside of them was delicate and easily shattered because of the war being so horrific which is what Sheers could be attempting to present in his poem moreover, ‘their skeletons paused mid dance – macabre’ suggests that now we know if you went to war, you’re essentially walking into your own grave without knowing death is going to take you presenting but the soldiers didn’t know that and they ended up ‘buried in one long grave…linked arm in arm’, compared to Bayonet Charge. A ‘patriotic tear’ could possibly signifying that the solider believed he’d get glory and honour in fighting for his country but that patriotism is lost within his tear as he ‘runs’ and ‘was running like a man who has jumped up in the dark’ suggesting, that he doesn’t understand why or where he is running to. The writer in Bayonet Charge presents a lot of uncertainty, hesitation, confusion and danger in the atmosphere - during World War One – for a solider. There so much threat that even ordinary objects like a ‘green hedge’…
When Dartemont returned home after he healed, his father was disappointed in him. He didn’t feel as though Dartemont served his country if he didn’t get any ribbons or a higher ranking. Dartemont tried to explain to his father how only clueless soldiers who follow orders get placed in the high rankings but he wouldn’t listen. Back home, they didn’t understand the fear that surrounded everyone in the trenches and how it didn’t matter what position he had. He thought he served his country enough by simply being a soldier. Even his father’s friends, who disregarded Dartemont once he told them he didn’t have any ribbons, were clueless. They wanted him to tell them about the glory in the dangers and the joy he got from killing the enemy. Instead…
Glorifying war means to focus more on the action and suspense instead of the loss of actual human life. Glorifying war can also be considered to be focused on heroic behavior. For example, “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon” is a perfect example of many of our collective perceptions of the glorification of war. To begin with, let’s talk about violence. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, the major villains are killed by the Autobot leader Optimus Prime in gruesome scenes of robot decapitation. At the end Witwicky also gets his hands dirty by killing the rival for his girlfriend. In director Bay’s world, war is the answer to everything. In “Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon”, Hollywood teaches that in war the enemy is not only wrong, but often is not even human. With every Hollywood movie that glorifies war and military hardware, our nation is nudged a degree closer to fascism. Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon has aroused millions of moviegoers with the spectacle of violent death, each killing of the “ethnic other”. An example of this in the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” would be Corporal Himmelstoss. He is tremendously brutal to his recruits, forcing them to follow absurd and risky orders simply because he enjoys harassing them. He had an idea of a cure for Tjaden’s bed-wetting—making him share a bunk with Kindervater, another bed wetter—the bed-wetting results from a medical condition and is not under Tjaden’s control. At this stage of the novel, Himmelstoss represents the meanest, aspect of humanity that war draws…
War requires unity behind a cause and a war without a cause leads to chaos. In Going After Cacciato, Paul Berlin, a soldier is faced with the harsh reality of war in Vietnam and imagines his journey to Paris, a place that stands for peace and hope. The author, Tim O’Brien, depicts Paul Berlin’s ambivalent views—whether to stand by his obligation to serve his country, even when it leads to destruction or to follow his own values to gain a sense of his true intention of gaining a sense of tranquility in order to reveal that war divides our morals and no definitive purpose.…
Not only was the Reign of Terror a big part of the French Revolution but it was a very unjustified event, creating sins among the people. They treated the dead as heads and bodies of simple animals rather than thinking of them as once humans. “Carried it mockingly, upside down on a cart, offering it to passers-by to spit on”(59). The people then went against the churches abolishing holidays which were important to many people and their beliefs. They also killed thousands, “many of these people were guillotined”(63). They would cut the heads of criminals and even innocent without trial. The guillotine began very popular through these months, becoming the number one way of killing. “The guillotine became one of the most powerful symbols of the French Revolution… It had a sharp, angled blade, which dropped quickly on a guided track”(65). These months were very gruesome for the people of france and many families, to where no one felt safe. These murders were sins, killed without reason or trial making the Reign of Terror unjustified.…
First of all, the Devon High School students aren’t used to what war is really like, which causes them to underestimate it. Leper goes into war to see what it’s like, and he comes back completely insane. He is insane because he saw the war firsthand. “They were going to give me a discharge, a Section Eight discharge. A Section Eight discharge is for the nuts in the service, the psychos, the Funny Farm candidates” (165). Leper knows that others consider him insane, and he has invited Gene over to prove to himself that he is not. Some students join the war for fun, even though they would be astonished at what it is actually like. Even Gene was skeptical about joining the war because of what happened to Leper.…
The novel is a reflection of the nationalism of german soldiers because of the horrors it brings. Nationalism brought millions of men to war. In the epigraph Paul says that a whole generation of men were destroyed by war, even those who survived it. Paul describes himself as dead, the war has only made him "an agony of himself" (185). The soldiers face the mud, rats, shelling, bullets, and starvation along with other horrors, all for their country. The novel is clearly a reflection of the nationalism of german soldiers because it has brought death and worse upon its population.…
William Doyle writes in his book that the reason of the revolution being violent is resistance. The understanding of resistance could go two ways. There was the resistance of the king, Louis XVI, where he thought that he should be the absolute monarch and where he believes that he is the one to be ruling over France and no one else. On the other hand, there also was the resistance of the common people that had enough of the king’s and queen’s poor ruling over them. They wanted a change.…
The average person in France was unaware of conditions in their African colonies. And the same can be said concerning French rule in Vietnam, where the French were equally oppressive. In the late nineteenth century, the French overthrew a feudal monarchy and fought long, extended military campaigns against resistance to their rule. Many of Vietnam's educated elite opposed French rule and would not work for the French, but the French found a few opportunistic Vietnamese who would.…
the horrors of war to show that is it far from sweet to die for one’s country.…
Jackson states that the worst decision made by the military was to move the top troops to the front line in Belgium in order to stop the German advancement. The book argues that the troops themselves were not to blame because they fought bravely, but that the military was not equipped nor prepared for the amount of force that the Germans were using to cut across Europe. Jackson’s book only briefly discusses the defeat and this point of soldier moral, while the Strange Defeat book covers more information on the topic. By analyzing the moral and mindsets of the High Command, Bloch’s book can add to Jackson’s ideas about how the defeat was impacted by moral. The leaders in charge of planning “entertained doubts of their own competence” Bloch writes. “In their hearts, they were only too ready to despair of the country they had been called upon to defend.” The low moral and doubt among the leaders, similar to that of politicians who were defeatists, was a major cause in the defeat of France. In order to get out of danger, France needed strong and heroic leaders like Pétain once was in…
As said before by many people, the better man in certain situations is the person that learns that they are wrong, are willing to learn from their mistakes, for the sake that they will be able to move on forward from what they learned. The North and the south are like a teacher and student, the North can teach the South as a student how lead the reconstruction era for it to become successful however, its up to the South as the student to see what they think is best. As so the South did act foolish and led to many missed out opportunities for its lands to become successful with allowing the blacks to live as an everyday white person. Now, “the better man is the person who learns from their mistakes” and so that is why I placed the North as the teacher, they learned from their civil war in order to have had been shaped into a great place. Now no side is perfect at this point, with the North agreeing upon the…
Hundreds of thousands of people died in wars fought in the name of nationalism. If war is such an awful thing, why would anyone desire it? Erich Maria Remarque’s war novel All Quiet on the Western Front gives an example of nationalism in Germany as a reason to become a soldier. The narrator of this novel introduces Kantorek, his schoolmaster. Kantorek was the person who had convinced the narrator’s class to enlist. Kantorek taught the men that “duty to one’s country is the greatest thing” (Remarque 929). Hundreds of Kantorek’s existed. Each one preached to the men of their countries about the glory and goodness of war. These men enlisted out of love for their country. This love sent them to the front lines of a war that few walked back from. The soldiers were watching friends be shot and shooting people who,…
War is both brutal and brutalising, its dehumanising influence can bee seen in the way which the Vietnamese are described as ‘gooks’ or ‘dinks’. Louis E. Willet reflects on a battle, after which ‘a lot of guys did asshole things and didn’t think anything of it at the time – then later on realised it’. After the battles is when they get the time to reflect, then feel a great sense of guilt for their actions, some of which will haunt and damage them for the rest of their lives.…