On the contrary Charge is patriotic with Tennyson celebrating the courage and obedience of the soldiers – this can be seen in his use of ‘glory, honour/noble’. This positive representation of conflict could be linked to Tennyson’s role of Poet Laureate under Queen Victoria’s reign. Futility mimics a sonnet but the form is disrupted as Owen splits the poem in to two seven-line stanzas. As a sonnet is traditionally associated with love, Owen could be suggesting that the effectively with conflict their can be no love. An alternative interpretation could be that Owen uses the structure to show how conflict has cut short the life of the soldier – in the middle of his life.
I don’t think that we’ll ever go back.” (Pg.86-87, Remarque)Kropp convinces himself that war does change a man after they come from battle. Nothing feels the same no more after coming back home and all you do and think about is regretting the things you did in your past. Paul even finds himself a different man after this war. “Speak to me- take me up- take me, Life of my Youth- you are care free, beautiful-receive me again- I wait, I wait. Images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories.
War Brings Out the Best When someone thinks of war what generally comes to mind? Probably death, pain, violence, or that it’s a waste of time? All probably true but has anyone ever considered that war might make someone stronger or it creates a lifetime bond with his or her fellow soldiers. Walter Dean Myers’ novel, Fallen Angels, is about the struggles, gains, and losses of war through the eyes of an ordinary private in the army during the Vietnam War. Through out the novel the men are getting stronger and forming lifelong bonds with each other.
Macbeth’s social status is raised because ‘brave Macbeth’ was promoted ‘Thane of Cawdor’ because he did so well fighting in war. The audience saw Macbeth as a hero at the beginning of the play, as he was a ‘valiant soldier’. T on the other hand has ‘come down in the world’ because his father who was an architect had been made redundant. We know that T has lots of knowledge about houses and buildings, as his father would have taught him something about them whilst he was working. Grahame Greene presents T as a very quiet character at the beginning of the book; he only starts to come out of this shell when he talk about Old Misery’s house.
Paul says, “[the] images float through my mind, but they do not grip me, they are mere shadows and memories.” It becomes apparent to the reader that the war has effected Paul in every aspect of his life. The images that once captivated him do it no longer; he calls them “shadows and memories,” but when he read the books that took him far beyond his small German village before the war, they were still only shadows and memories. Nothing about the books had changed, only Paul had. The war had tainted the innocence he had as a child that allowed him to dream of adventure. Paul even realizes it when he thinks, words, words, words-they do not reach me.
Restrepo The documentary Restrepo portrayed war life in the most vivid way. Blood and Gory didn’t need to be shown for viewers to understand the hardships that come with being a soldier. Restrepo, showed the real emotion behind war, and situations that make average life seem like a piece of cake. Soldiers step out knowing the risks and the consequences, but step out with pride to fight for their country. With firefights, life and death situations, and the mourning of their fellow soldiers, Restrepo showed that when it comes to war, even when we win, everyone still loses.
He gave out everything in the war, just to be left with a scar that will make him impotent for the rest of his life. Jake turns to alcohol to bury his sorrow thoughts, but when he sees Brett, the woman he loves, his sadness over powers him. He knows he can never have her, and that she will always be his friend, not his lover. His inability to have her makes Barnes think of himself as less of a man. Although, he is disillusioned by his injury, he still is cognizant about the unproductiveness of the Lost Generation.
It is this narrowness from a changed world no longer structured by the values that had sent young men to war. It is entirely reasonable that he would be negatively affected by the events of that summer: the death of a woman he met briefly and indirectly, who was having an affair with his cousin's husband and whose death leads to the death of his next-door neighbour. His decision to return home to that place that he had so recently destined for its narrow-mindedness, makes one wonder what Nick was doing during the war. If the extent and the pointlessness of death and destruction during the war had left him feeling he is outgrown the comfort and security of the West, why has the armory he acquired from the war abandoned him after this one summer's events? Nick runs away from his experience in the East in much the same way that he has run away from that "tangle back home" to whom he writes letters and signs "with love", but clearly doesn't genuinely offer.
He feels bad for Gatsby for believing that he could recreate the past and take away the five years that separated him and Daisy. The last sentence is quoted “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” This quote from Nick summarizes how lonely Gatsby was without Daisy and his time spent away from her he would think of how everything can remain the same as it was before the war started. Although he finds out that even with all his meticulous planning to create the perfect scene it would never be like the times he had with her before he left for the
In All Quiet on the Western Front the protagonist is Paul Baumer because we experience the story from his point of view and thus we sympathize with him. Paul’s situation is troubling because his life and the lives of other soldiers his age “have become a wasteland” (20). War has changed them and the world so much that they don’t really know what they are going to do once the war finishes. They don’t know any trades; all they know is war. The value of their lives was also changed by war.