Pack Up You Class Systems Ww1 Analysis

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I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed. Siegfried Sassoon, 3rd Batt: Royal Welsh Fusiliers, July, 1917.
With the choice of opening statements, this encapsulates the sentiment that came home from Europe
A world of class systems, the aristocracy and the working class. a divide so vast people could not see the other side. Following some of the greatest minds of the Victorian era actively fighting this status quo notably Charles Dickens
With little in the way of power, the men in power knew the army could not win or even stand a fighter’s chance without more tried a far subtler and ingenious way and tactic for calling on the masses for ‘their’ war. Using a carefully planned campaign of propaganda (most famous of which was the ‘your country needs you’) with this the men flocked to the recruiting stands unbeknownst to them the horrors that waited on the other side of the channel. For some this was a godsend to go from the squalor they knew to the life of a hero they had been promised with 3 meals a day. ‘At the start of the 20th century, malnutrition was widespread. Although the importance of clean water and good drainage was recognized, little was known about the dangers of a bad diet. During the First World War it was found that almost half the men called up to enlist were not in good enough health to serve. Efforts were made in the 1930s to improve the situation and the nation's health became a government priority.’ (Eating In 1900-1950) this fact shocked Britain and its opinion on how it would treat or continue to treat these men upon their return from the fields of red. There was little evidence to the opinions in Britain at the time on mental health prior to the war as people had little concept as to the meanings and uses of science of emotion due to it’s at the time near mythical standing, unlike physical medicine that could be seen and treated, problems of the brain were harder to diagnose and more of a problem of the upper classes. Such an illness in a family could bring much shame and social stigma, where as in the lower classes, mental illness is less documented but more visible in the works of predominant writers where suicide along with many other forms of mental illness are seen but used as a crutch to portray how hard the lower classes have the simple