World War Transformative

World War One was a gruesome and transformative war, many young men suffered and died in the name of fighting for countries, and against countries, that they had no ties with aside from alliances. It lasted from July 1914 to November 1918, and all of the 4 years were fought with old tactics, but new weaponry and ways to kill. As a result of this the “Great War” as it was called is often considered one of the most brutal and bloody wars in the history of the world, and it transformed much of the way life was lived. War is transformative in the way that it reaches all and changes much, regardless of whether the change is good, bad, appreciated, or not, it transforms people and things forever.
Starting off the list of ways war is transformative
By this it is meant that no one who fights in a war isn’t changed in someway. Be it physically or mentally no one can escape some form of changing. Entire concepts and thoughts change too, even for those not affected, including the idea of war itself. One such example of how peoples perspective changed is shown in The World of Yesterday, In the the author describes the young recruits as thinking war is glorious and its almost a romantic thing to go off and die for your country, claiming “They still saw it in the perspective of their school readers in of the paintings in museums; brilliant cavalry attacks in glittering uniforms, the fatal shot always straight through the heart, the entire campaign a resounding march of victory” (Document H). And claims they were excited to go off fight in the war claiming this to be thought as the “most wonderful and exciting experience of their lives.” (Document H). However as history tells us, they were soon to be proven horribly wrong. The initial thought of how war was, this glorious romantic thing, turns out to have changed, its now brutal and deadly, with very few blessed with a quick and simple death. The change is brilliantly displayed in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” By Wilfred Owen. In this document the brutality of the great war is shown off. Explaining the horrors and issues soldiers has to deal with constantly such as how “Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf…” Which doesn’t sound as glorious as described in the world of yesterday. The direct change is also exampled in Dulce where it is said that if you saw the horrors of the war “you would not tell with such high zest/to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est/pro patria mori.” (Document C). Meaning to get the message across that it is not actually “sweet and proper to die