Explore the ways in which Sherriff’s Journey’s End present the horrors of war. Compare and contrast your finding with Sebastian Faulks’ treatment of the same theme in Birdsong‚ ensuring that your response is informed by interpretations of other readers. Both Sherriff and Faulks depict the horrors of war through the various dramatic and linguistic techniques used. Some of these horrors can be perceived as the separation from loved ones‚ the responsibilities and expectations men faced in the trenches
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Horror Fiction Horror is in many ways a unique genre. It has the ability to make us feel frightened‚ disgusted and fascinated at the same time. During an intense scene in a horror movie or book you often feel tempted to look away‚ but at the same time you’re “glued” to the screen or page – You can’t let go; you want to see what’s hiding in the dark. Another fascinating aspect of the horror genre is the fact that it remains controversial due to its extreme nature. A lot of critiques argue that horror
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Glorification and Horrors of War through the Arts Artistes have always painted scenes of war from the Ancient worlds of Egypt and Greece. The relief inside the Abu Simbel Temple showing Ramses in the Battle of Kadesh and of his victory over the Hittites is an excellent example. The Athena Frieze depicting the battle of Greeks against the Persians‚ which are some of the earliest example of a specific historical event being‚ sculptured (Greek Art). To the photographs that are coming from the current war in Iraq
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that in the poem ’Disabled’‚ Wilfred Owen is trying to convey the real tragedy of war. Many people think only of those killed but reading the poem you remember that many people who were not killed in the war could still have suffered a lot more. In the poem Owen focuses on one young man‚ a single victim of war. It shows the effect the war has on the young man’s life‚ when on returning from the war he has been maimed "legless‚ sewn short at elbow" Owen writes the poem with style. He
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Personal Response. The poem talks of a gas attack upon an accumulation of soldiers who are fighting in World War I. He sarcastically states that it is ‘sweet and fitting to die for ones country’. Wilfred Owen thought completely different of this‚ however‚ and is complexly against the war. He uses very powerful‚ vivid descriptions‚ for example‚ the young soldiers being described as ‘aged by war’. For someone to ‘age’ in a matter of minutes‚ seconds even‚ is an astounding thing‚ most likely referring
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The opening stanza is characterised by language about ’fatigue’: the soldiers ’marched asleep’‚ they ’trudge’‚ and ’limped on’. They are ’deaf’‚ ’lame’ and ’blind’; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects. The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim ’guttering‚ choking‚ drowning’. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death. The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong‚ representing both the anguish
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interesting word to you all which is ”horror”. Most of the time we just simply say that “horror thing”‚ “horror movie”‚ “horror place”‚ but are we really know what is the meaning of horror‚ or define horror in a better way? In fact‚ horror can be defined as anything which causes intense feeling of shock‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or something frightening. Horror may caused by something ugly‚ bad or disagreeable‚ hence causing strong dislike or loath. Any definition of horror that asserts any form of fear‚
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Thomas Hardy and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. ‘The Man He Killed’ is about a man who was in the war and is thinking about his memories in the war. The main part of his experience in the war that he is reminiscing is the killing that he committed and the majority of the poem is focused on that. Thomas Hardy did not go to war himself but it could be thought that he got the idea from a friends experience in the war. The poem is based on the Boer War. The message of the poem is that he was most
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The Horror of War Exposed in Slaughterhouse Five When one begins to analyze a military novel it is important to first look at the historical context in which the book was written. On the nights of February 13-14 in 1944 the city of Dresden‚ Germany was subjected to one of the worst air attacks in the history of man. By the end of the bombing 135‚000 to 250‚000 people had been killed by the combined forces of the United States and the United Kingdom. Dresden was
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Wilfred Laurier‚ at the beginning of the twentieth century‚ predicted that “The next hundred years would belong to Canada.” I believe Wilfred was correct; the twentieth century did indeed belong to Canada. The Canadians and the Canadian/British allied forces had many victories‚ Canadian born people who grew up to change the world and many other events prove that Canada owned the twentieth century. Many consider the victory at Vimy Ridge in 1917 a defining moment for Canada. Although it
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