Their way of living should not be respected, but it is true that each of them is somehow struggling with their lives The antagonist and narrator of the story, Jake Barnes, experienced World War I as a soldier. During the war, a number of people were wounded and lost their morality on the battlefields. Jake is one of them who is suffering from the trauma from the war. Jake has an injury from the war and as a result, he is unable to physically make a love to women. This disability left him psychologically and morally lost, and takes his masculinity away from him.
Many of the results of physical pain were due to the oppressed environment and the very nature of war. The emotional injuries were encountered through the soldier’s constant struggle for survival. Soldiers were sent home after their tour of duty but many experienced post traumatic war syndrome; mentally and psychologically scarring these soldiers. In a war it is evident that wounds always remain for those who have experienced it. Physical pain is a primary ‘stereotypical’ effect of war which most people understand of being the broad result of war.
The mark left on them will always be there whether it be physically, emotionally, mentally,or all of the above. Once war touches someone, engulfs them, or merely brushes past them it sticks to the person never allowing them to move on and return to the way it used t be before they were put through such an experience; once that happens there's no going back. Ernest Hemingway's writings such as The Sun Also Rises, "Soldier's Home", and "In Another Country", reveals to the readers the struggles in which Veterans face after the war. The main characters feel alone in the world because society does not understand them nor do their families. They feel as though that the only other people in the world who can understand them are other war veterans.
“what passing-bells… for these who witnessed it”. Through the use of alliteration, soldiers were dehumanised and their parents had no loved ones to comfort them and mourn for them. Moreover, due to the enormous amount of soldiers dying they “didn’t have enough bells” to mourn all their children which depicts such a tragic loss on a huge scale. Owen puts forward the things the soldiers had to go through and how that resulted in their death or illnesses after being dehumanised and if they survived, when they returned home from the war. The feeling of paranoia and depression has caused the decrease of the soldiers’ emotional wellbeing.
They were not given shoes and equipment so many men were fighting without guns or shoes, they didn’t have wagons or horses and not even first aid treatment for wounds. The fact they had no fist aid supplies was bad because many men had there wounds unattended and even worse the soldiers were made to lye on the ground in the dirt, filth and cold without straw. All this ill-treatment eventually led to desertions from soldiers and this was a problem for the government because they were losing men on the front line, and even worse the soldiers were coming back to Russia angry with the Tsar and equipped with weapons. This is a very important factor in bringing about the Russian Revolution of March 1917 because the people revolting in Russia now had the army slowly joining them. The war was not only badly affecting the
In most cases people were not buried when they died, and they were almost never buried if they were killed in war. With England being at constant warfare, there was no time for the spread of new ideas, and the economy, along with education, came to a halt. Children were taken out of school to practice for battle and the adults
The Civil War was a very hard time for America, there was no winner during this time. When going through rough times like the civil war it is hard to keep going, most just wanted to give up. Inner strength is a very widely used theme throughout many works about the Civil War era. It took everything the members of both armies had to push through the pain of leaving their families and not knowing if they would return. It takes a lot of strength to leave loved ones not knowing if you will ever see them again.
The effects of war left a lasting impression on several members of the armed forces. These effects continue to echo for those who have recently retired or resigned from service. Several individuals suffered emotionally traumatic experiences while serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. Others experienced such severe disruptions in their family life due to being deployed that it is difficult for them to reconnect with their loved ones upon returning home. Many veterans reported that normal life felt “alien” due to being disconnected from family, lack of support from institutions, lack of structure and purpose once returning home (Ahern et al,
We lost a lot of people because of that attack, so that really hurt me on the inside. It made me pretty angry and I wanted our military to do everything possible to get back at them for what they have done. The years have passed and I still think about this event almost every day. It is truly amazing how we take our freedom for granted, and not realize how important truly is. There are people out there fighting for our country every single day and some people don’t respect that as much as they should.
Many of the men who served in the war came back injured, and could not find employment. Some soldiers died while serving their country, thus leaving widows and their children to fend for themselves. Countries involved with the war were left to pay for the damages caused by the war, which caused inflation rates to rise, and poverty to increase. As a result of these difficult times, art was used to revolt against the culture and values which existed, with the intent to subvert and undermine those values. On the website Visual-Arts-Cork.com (Data Art Movement: History, Charicteristics, Artists), it is mentioned that Dada used outrageous tactics to attack the established traditions of art, and it used exhibitions of absurdist art deliberately designed to scandalize and shock both the authorities and the general public.