When Jim Dies, it greatly affects Henry and makes him realize the true meaning of courage – not being afraid to face death, as Jim wasn’t. Henry reveals his immaturity at the beginning of the novel when he’s leaving for Washington as “he basked in the smiles of the girls,” (pg. 6) demonstrating that the only reason he wants to join the army is because he wants the army uniform and weaponry to impress the ladies. However, very quickly in the course of a few days, Henry’s maturity level rises. During battle, Henry
This speech is very powerful and when someone is feeling unmotivated and depressed it has the ability to stir you to focus. Henry knew that he was sending his troops out into a battle they would lose but instead of dwelling on this Henry convinces his men that the battle is more than a mathematical formula that they have all come there to fight for honour, for justice and for glory. He makes fighting with him at Agincourt sound like a privilege. Henry also brings up, once more the motif of the bond between kind and commoner. In the scene before the battle of Harfleur, he unites himself with his men, he says “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
9. He shows how he understands the draft and the feeling of being a soldiers parent by explaining his fathers military background and talking about his 2 children’s military experience. 10. He uses quite a bit of pathos, but it’s mainly all at the end of his argument. 11.
has plenty of experience by which he perceives with memory and associations. You can clearly tell his past experience permeates through into his management style, leaving his “thinking judgment” to be seen as firm-minded, or rather confident. An example of his prior experience is the scene where there is a fire in the kitchen. Despite the crew’s current state of crisis, Cpt. Ramsey calls a practice drill, leaving the XO to question the decision in a time when he felt needed to be spent on controlling the fire from starting up again.
The Heroic Coward Throughout the story The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane, the actions and attitude of the protagonist, Private Henry Fleming constantly change. In the beginning of the book Henry would be considered a hero for enlisting in the army. In the middle and the end of the book Henry changes from a hero to a coward. He continuously ran away during the battles and he also fakes an injury in the attempt to receive a Red Badge of Courage. First Henry decides to enlist into the army which takes place in the first chapter of the book.
The fact that ‘Journey’s End’ has evidently more characters to that of ‘Not about Heroes’, allows Sherriff to explore how the soldiers express their sense of duty through their actions by not letting their comrades down. For instance, in Act 2 Stanhope manipulates Hibbert’s guilt ‘“If you went – and left Osborne and Trotter and Raleigh and all those men up there to do your work – could you ever look a man straight in the face again”’. For the audience, they see that Stanhope intends to create a sense of guilt in Hibbert as this attitude displays to the audience that the soldiers have to rely on each other and act responsibly and collectively in order to survive, leaving no room for selfishness, meaning that they be putting their comrades second. This emphasises that thinking and acting collectively was simply a matter of life and death. Similarly, in Act 2 of ‘Not about Heroes’, Sassoon makes a stand to say he would never betray his comrades and wouldn’t ‘lead’ his ‘Company to be slaughtered’.
Themes, Motifs & Symbols Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Incompatibility of Military Heroism & Love Before and above all else, Othello is a soldier. From the earliest moments in the play, his career affects his married life. Asking “fit disposition” for his wife after being ordered to Cyprus (I.iii.234), Othello notes that “the tyrant custom . .
The sweet patriotic song which says, “America has heard the bugle call / And you know it involves us one and all” combined with the dour faces of the men seek to impose the oppositions of the individual and the group that is so present in films across this genre. We see the expulsion of the individual and hear the song, which reflects how it should be a group effort. The audiences somewhat educated guess into Full Metal Jacket’s genre is rewarded as the film moves into the recruits sleeping area. Again we see the same genre coding consisting of the extremely strict drill-instructor asking the men to, “Sound off like [they] have a pair”, all of the men perfectly lined up and all of them wearing the same green trousers and green shirt. This section shows again how all individuality the men once had has all but left them, the instructor speaks to them as a unit, refers to them as a “weapon”, he even ironically speaks of how the men’s racial background doesn’t matter to him only to find out that to him the men are all “equally worthless”.
The movie “Paths of Glory,” portrays a war theme - more specifically an anti-war theme. The message of the movie is portrayed through the soldiers and the different “paths the soldiers took to get to victory and survive.” Every soldier went down their own path overall leading to somewhat “glory” which not all of them got to experience. Men died in battle, mental illness (and illness in genera), fellow soldiers doings, death sentences; just an endless amount of reasons. Soldiers believed that they were fighting for the glory of victory or “patriotism” which Sam Johnson described as the last refuge of a scoundrel. Soldiers were brainwashed with the idea of patriotism - leading their country to victory at all costs, even if meant going into battle knowing you were going to die enforcing the message of the movie that, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” At first, the movie described the trench warfare situation of World War I.
Career and Values of Education Throughout high school I wanted to be in the military. I knew that I would sign up. My father was in the Army National Guard. Growing up I did not know about his position or what he did in the Army. I remember that I loved how he looked in his uniform, the support that surrounded him, and I enjoyed the stories he told me when he went off to training of deployment.