Dramatical Effectiveness In Act Journey's End

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Journeys End is a play written by R.C Sherriff in the late 1920’s. Sherriff was born in 1896, he had written six other plays that were not successful however Journeys End his seventh play and was a great success. The play is set in St Quentin, France 1918 and starts on Monday 18th March, the play is about life in the the trenches and is historically accurate. Act one is dramatically effective in many ways such as in tension, irony and humour. In this essay I shall discuss the dramatical effectiveness in Act one. In the very beginning of the play Hardy makes it feel as if the war is not even going on, you can see this from the quote “ One and Two, it’s with Maud and Lou; ...” this surprises the audience because in war you are normally depressed because you are likely to die any minute! The quote “ I’d rather have microbes, wouldn’t you?” and Cheero. Excuse my sock, won’t you?” This shows Osborne and Hardy are talking about things that are very random and would occur to the audience as boring but as the two don’t have anything to talk about it would be interesting to them, the quote however shows sarcasm and humour. The quote “Sometimes nothing happens for hours on end; then - all of a sudden- “over she comes!” - rifle grenades - Minnies - and those horrid little things like pineapples - you know.” This quote shows that Hardy is Flippant and he doesn’t show treat things with respect, it shows he is trivialising the war and as well it tells the audience that the soldiers receive bad training as you would expect them to use the correct terminology. The quote “ By the , you know the big German attack’s expected any day now?” In this quote Hardy is informing Osborne and he is also gloating as he won’t be there because he is being relieved. The quotes “are you here for six days” and “then I should think you’ll get it - right in the neck” The quotes show

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