Explain how useful these sources have been in informing you in inquiry into the changing and different attitudes towards war in world war one Intro In 1914 world war one broke out, many people were exited to fight for their country. A few years later many or even most of the solider had a change of view to the war and attitudes were very different this can be shown by the 5 sources firstly source 1 a bbc documentary called the “people’s century” is all about the experiences of people in the first world war showing what happened to the soldiers following up to the war. Source two is a cigarette advert, this advert is wanting more soldiers to join the war by showing it’s not all about the fighting instead it’s about hanging around with your mates. Source 3 is a dairy by lieutenant Wooten’s dairy this source show us about the tanks and the experiences he had had during the war and the changing attitude he had from the when the war had just started. Source 4 is a programme called “black adder” in this programme it shows us the attitudes about going over the top to fight for their country Source 1: BBC documentary called “people’s century” Source 1 is a BBC documentary called “peoples century” in this clip it shows us peoples experience during the start of WW1 it also shows how enthusiastic people were and all singing patriotic songs .
1、Austrian army officer Alfred Redl takes the cake. Before and during World War 1, Redl worked as a spy for the Russian military and sold secrets about the Austrian army. Redl leaked the Austrian invasion plan for Serbia, which Russia in turn sold to Serbia. He continued to double cross his countrymen by supplying the wrong information about Russia’s military strength and exposing Austrian agents to the enemy. The results were catastrophic for the Austrian army: his actions contributed to the deaths of half a million Austrians.
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were both soldier poets during World War I, and wrote about the horrific events of the Great War. In Sassoon’s poem “They” and Owen’s famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, the respective authors deconstruct and critique the glorification of war by the Catholic Church and society through the use of vivid imagery of battle and its effect on soldiers. Sassoon’s “They” attacks the Catholic Church and its beliefs that war is not only righteous, but endorsed by God. This contrast in beliefs is made very clear by the caesura and the line break between the two speakers: the Bishop and the soldiers. The Bishop is convinced that the soldiers fighting the war are combating evil in the name of God.
Trench warfare is the basis behind All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel was published in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque himself fought in World War I, and based some of his experiences in the book. After the rise of the Nazi regime, All Quiet on the Western Front, was one of the first books they burned because it was a betrayal to the soldiers who fought in World War I. One reason could have been the way the negative effects of war show through the use of Irony, Symbolism, and Metaphors.
Did they really see men die before them and walk away unaffected? In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, the author uses both the characters of General Zaroff, who at one point commanded a division of Cossack cavalry in the Russian army, and Sanger Rainsford, an American who fought during World War I, to bring to light the impact a war environment can have on one’s regard for human life. The author uses the short story to imply that exposure to a war environment causes a person to lose all value for human life, even if they are not aware of it. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, Connell uses comparison to show the possible difference of opinion between those who have been exposed to a war environment using the example of General Zaroff and Rainsford, who initially appear to hold two very different opinions on the matter of the value of human life. To General Zaroff it means nothing.
Hitler then took away the “Power of the People” by replacing parliament with a self proclaimed dictatorship, which most Germans welcomed. Hitler was often described as a “Leader that got mad with power” as he lead a war that lead to many, many people dying. This so called “madness” leads to him taking over Poland and starting the war, consequently meaning Germany broke the “Treaty of Versailles”. After Germany took over Poland, Britain declared war on Germany as they refused to leave from Germany and the fact that they broke the “Treaty of Versailles”. After Britain declared war on Germany, France joined in with Britain as they felt threatened that Germany was going to take over them.
How does Owen portray the horrors of war in Dulce et Decorum Est? “Sweet and honourable it is, to die for one’s country” World War I was an abominable ordeal that shocked the world, caused over 16 million people to lose their lives and millions more to suffer for years. Wilfred Owen has described so horrifically the horrors of war, each one seems to grow in significance until everything blurs together into a foul and futile torment that will haunt the dreams of every man for all their lives. Throughout the poem Owen attempts to eliminate the misconception that it is “sweet and honourable... to die for one’s country”, as the title of the poem suggests, through his use of vivid imagery, descriptive language and first person narrative. In the first stanza, Owen presents the idea that the personal struggles faced every moment on the front line are extremely underestimated, immeasurably terrifying and “obscene”.
The First World War initiated a long line of violence and corruption in the world. It began with the killing of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Hungarian throne which resulted in many countries declaring war on each other, turning into a world war. Information gathered from the given sources encourages the idea that during World War one, men witnessed thousands of killings and faced traumatic changes when returning home from battle. The four sources will be dissected to distinguish the historical insight to the history of combat in the twentieth century. ‘Male Sexuality and Psychological Trauma: Soldiers and Sexual Disorder in World War One and Weimar Germany’ discusses how a man’s sexually was challenged during wartime.
Commentary on “Dulce et Decorum est” World War One was a disastrous event which led to the deaths of over 9 million people, while drastically affecting and altering the lives of an entire generation worldwide. In the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est", the poet Wilfred Owen uses a variety of powerful literary devices in order to depict death in war as a brutal and horrifying experience. It is written in fist-person narrative and describes a situation of a scene in the trenches in the first world war. Dulce Et Decorum Est, meaning “It is sweet and right“, is an allusion to the ode by Horace which suggests the honours of dying for one´s country, and thereby Owen is ironically mocking it through this poem. It can also be linked to another of his poem´s, “Inspection”.
Owen starts the second stanza with an ironic ‘merry.’ The war front was not a happy place, but a place filled with intense pain and death. In the next line Owen exposes reality of how ‘death becomes absurd and life absurder’ and how soldiers lost all morality and became desensitised as they felt no ‘remorse of murder.’ The soldiers were trained to be mindless tools of their government as they did what they were ordered to do without questioning the morality of what they were instructed to do. Owen personifies fear as something which can be ‘dropped off’. Fear can be paralysing which can be disastrous for a soldier. ‘Behind the barrage, dead as my platoon’