Through his poems, Owen highlights the unjust experiences of soldiers to create a protest against the bureaucracy because of how they justified the harming and killing of many for their own political gain. He does this by highlighting the actions and inactions of the bureaucracy that contribute to benefit of the administration. This can be explored in his poems ‘Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ (Parable) and the epic war poem ‘Disabled’. These two poems employ Owens message of anti-war sentiment to establish a connection with the audience through his manipulation of poetic techniques. Owen highlights such unjust experiences of the soldiers to augment his argument against the bureaucracy.
In response to women’s contribution in WW1 Women gained the right to vote. Because the women helped the government in order to win the war by creating ammunition and Farming, this changed the lives of women by having the right to choose who is going to control the country. I can also infer that, the group called the Suffragettes has been fighting for women's rights. Because, the leader Mrs Pankhurst believes that women and men are equal and should have the rights and this changed woman's life by getting the same amount of payment as the men. This can be seen on source A1 which states that ‘’ women had proved that they were just as important to the war effort as men in 1918 women were given some form of political representation.
“I think she’ll sooner prove a soldier / As had she studied to misuse me so” (II,I,145-155). Lastly, we see Kate’s negative behaviour shown through her loneliness and her desire for a relationship that she torments her sister Bianca and plots revenge against her. This is shown when Kate and Bianca are fighting and Kate says “Her silence flounts me and I’ll be revenged” (II,ii,29), and continues with “What / Til I can find an occasion of revenge” (II,ii,31). Therefore,
Helene Cioux: The Laugh of the Medusa The Laugh of the Medusa is about how women shouldn’t be afraid to express themselves through literature. The article is written from a feminist’s point of view. According to the article, women are afraid to write in a world that is controlled by men. I chose a paragraph from the article to summarize: “Men have committed the greatest crime against women. Insidiously, violently, they have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies, to mobilize their immense strength against themselves, to be the executants of their virile needs.
The poet is saying that people should not talk about war as enthusiastically as it gives the impression that war is glorious. Furthermore, he says that the idea that ’it is sweet and right’ to die for your country is entirely untrue. Through this, we are able to form the opinion that war is not okay because it is a serious thing that carries many negative consequences. In Wilfred Owen’s poem Dolce et Decorum est, the use of similes conveys the harsh reality of war on soldiers as it changes them dramatically and kills the majority of them. In the first two lines of the poem, Owen uses the similes “Bent double like old beggars under sacks, knocked kneed, coughing like hags” to paint a grim picture in readers minds of how the soldiers were.
This was decision was made due the pressure they felt to conform to societies idyllic perception of what women’s role in the household/home should be. The Second World War was called a total. A total war affects and involves a nation as a whole, the people battling at war and also the citizens on the home front. The Second World War demanded help from countries’ populations like never before. Men were sent by the millions to fight in the terrible total war.
Firstly, as the war broke out, many women took it upon themselves to do a duty for the common good of the “new“ nation. They began as boycotters, camp followers and fund raisers, even when their “invaluable Rights and Privileges are attacked in an unconstitutional and most alarming Manner.” They felt it was their public duty and sometimes did it more than the men. Many other women showed their patriotism by serving in the war, as nurses, cooks, or laundresses. However, life on a military camp was hard and not very attractive. They were usually so busy they didn’t know what was going on as, Sarah Osborn, a camp follower, asked about why officers had swung their hats.
The Sociological Imagination is a basic concept that can be expanded to many different aspects of life. One cause can lead to an effect of events and send a chain reaction and disturb other issues which will have to be resolve. In the article of Sociological Imagination, it talks about some of the issues that we Americans are struggling in today’s society. For instance war, men and women of our armed forces are fighting for our freedom, dying for our country in honor to protect us from all anxiety. With war comes with a price, the weapons from guns to armory and the bravery of our men and women that have to survive in harsh conditions.
Owen commented on his poetry that ‘my subject is war, and the pity of it… all a poet can do is warn.’ Owen and Sassoon were both trying to warn young men against war and inform the public on how brutal and disgusting war actually is In both poems, after describing the obscene conditions of war and the impact that these conditions had on the soldiers, the poets dedicated a stanza to condemning the reader on any encouragement they may have had towards young men going to war. They did this through the use of personal pronouns. In ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ Owen condemns the use of the saying “Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori” (It is sweet and fitting to die for your country) by using personal pronouns to involve the reader in the reality of war “If you could hear at every jolt/ the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs… my friend you would not tell with such high zest… the old lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori.” In ‘Suicide in the trenches’ personal pronouns are also used to disapprove of the encouragement of war “You smug faced crowds… who cheer when soldier lads march by/ sneak home and pray you’ll never know/ the hell where youth and laughter go.” Personal pronouns are used in order to involve the
Because of that women, who had flooded the workforce to replace the men who had gone to war, were demanding equal rights. "I want to criticize the social system and to