With the horrors of the First World War it became clear that war is indeed highly contradictory in that it encourages soldiers to kill so as to preserve the kind of civilized society. Since the First World War people comprehend that war is a legalized murder under the pretext of a patriarchal noble duty. Destruction of war seems as inevitable as it is impersonal, war "was like one of the blind forces of nature; one could not control it, one could not comprehend it, and one could not predict its course from hour to hour" (Scarry 46). Killing tends to present legalized murder as either normal or necessary. War reduces people to targets who must be killed to satisfy military objective. Such scenes tend to suggest that the conditions of war strip men of their humanity, to reveal the primitive animal instincts. Consequently, war …show more content…
She was born in Beirut to an Australian mother and a Lebanese father, Nada Awar Jarrar attended school at the International College in Beirut and went on to complete an undergraduate degree in the History and Politics of the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at London University. She subsequently gained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the American University in Washington DC. She lived in London, Paris, Washington DC and Sydney before returning to Beirut in the mid-1990s where she worked as a journalist. She wrote three novels: Somewhere, Home, published in 2003 and won the Commonwealth Best First Book award for Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, Dreams of Water in 2007, and A Good Land in 2009 which was shortlisted for Best Book for the Commonwealth. Her remarkable novel, Somewhere, Home, tells the story of three Lebanese women. All of whom are still searching for somewhere that can be called home. Nada Awar Jarrar’s novel tells three distinct, thematically linked stories of modern Lebanese women living in the shadow of war and
Most of the soldiers look sorrowful, but some hold blank and lost looks (Dix). While the propaganda posters of the time depicted men with pride on their faces to fight for their country, the expressions of the drawing showed the opposite. The haunted and damaged men from the battle depicted in the artwork disillusions the notion that there was any pride or honor gained through war for the individuals who served. Like Kemmerich from All Quiet on the Western Front, these men’s hopes and dreams before the war are ravaged by the cold realities of war. The use of visual techniques to express such
One example from the passage representing war is a quote from Golding in lines 15-17 of “The off-stage protagonist”(Doc C): “Where did the Second World War come from? Was it made by something inhuman and alien- or was it made by chaps with eyes and legs and hearts?” To clarify, when Golding said “Something inhuman and alien”, he meant something like a beast. This quote is Golding straightforwardly saying that the “Beast” represents war.
In the war novel of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the imagery of nature is used to describe the battle of the front of the war. Because of the grotesque battle scene that is associated with nature, soldiers would change by losing their innocence and being dehumanized. Although nature often associated with peace, it is more substantial than humans because nature has an impact on the soldiers. During the war, there are times of peace because nature is everywhere.
The use of horrors of war is exhibited in In the Fields as well. O’Brien illustrates this field as a place where bad things happen from the beginning. The things the soldiers experienced and saw like when they were searching for Kiowa and found “an arm and a wristwatch and part of a boot” (O’Brien). After already coming to terms with the death of a camarade the soldiers also have the image of a disembodied limb and a boot from the very same camarade burned into their young minds for the rest of their
Since the beginning of time, war has been practiced for numerous reasons ultimately to benefit a group of people or nations. But, when war divides the world into two different sides with the capability to destroy faster than we can create, it makes us question, is war really worth it? With the aftermath of World War One, people we’re still divided, but for a different reason, after a war with a catastrophic amount of deaths we had militarists advocating to fight and pacifists demanding peace. The two sources I have used from this essay comes from a European militarist, Friedrich Von Bernhardi with his book “War a Biological Necessity” and United States pacifists, William James, in his book “Moral Equivalent of War”. Therefore this essay will review the
When talking about war, there are many books with few answers to what war truly is. Barbara Ehrenreich brings forth not only the possibilities towards understanding war but also the passion people from history have had towards it. One key issue she brings to light is humanities love for war, so much so that people would use excuses like holy wars to justify their need to fight in a war. She declares that war is as muddled as the issue of diseases and where diseases came from around 200 years ago. More so than that she even goes further on to state that these rituals that date back to prehistoric times are the cause of human nature during times of war rather than human instinct.
Obrien perfectly describes the duality of war saying, “war is nasty; war is fun” and “war makes you a man; war makes you dead” (76). War has many positives for some men, and it gives them a chance to honor their country. War is also horrible and leads to the death of countless young men with bright futures ahead. O’Brien uses the story of the water buffalo to describe all the emotions described in the description of war. The shooting of the water buffalo shows how desensitized soldiers become due to the mindless killing of Vietnam.
Throughout the ages, wars have wreaked havoc and caused great destruction that lead to the loss of millions of lives. However, wars also have an immensely destructive effect on the individual soldier. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, one is able to see exactly to what extent soldiers suffered during World War 1 as well as the effect that war had on them. In this essay I will explain the effect that war has on young soldiers by referring to the loss of innocence of young soldiers, the disillusionment of the soldiers and the debasement of soldiers to animalistic men. Many soldiers entered World War 1 as innocent young boys, but as they experienced the full effect of the war they consequently lost their innocence.
This portrayal reveals the shared humanity of the soldiers on both sides and how in war beauty and horror
To begin, one example of brutality showing the horror of war is when a man’s face is torn away. The text says, "After a while a fragment smashes away his chin...." A fragment
War and its affinities have various emotional effects on different individuals, whether facing adversity within the war or when experiencing the psychological aftermath. Some people cave under the pressure when put in a situation where there is minimal hope or optimism. Two characters that experience
The Wars is a symbolic masterpiece that illustrates the great impact war brings on the microcosm of society and how individuals juxtaposed to the war are affected. The novel itself requires active reading; because without it, the novel would seem very simplistic; however, after further examination, readers can evidently recognize the complexity of Robert’s character with the aid of many heteroglossic components, techniques, devices, and the reworking of literary conventions. Robert’s physical, mental and emotional journey he endeavours, followed by the constant re-evaluations of his truths and becoming a more proficient soldier, can be seen through a formalist perspective with the use of foreshadowing to signify Robert’s transition from a sane to insane soldier; the utilization of animal imagery highlighting Robert’s development through the horrific experiences of war; and the several themes in the text to illustrate Robert’s evolution as a soldier through his inner
In the Constitution of the United States entrench a requirement and action to have a profession, which ensure the protection and safety of the Nation and State, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, …, provide for the common defence” . Basically, this statement is the presumption, that part of society gain a mandate to render an essential obligation to the Nation in a specific area, in particular case this is a defence. In order to fulfill stated obligation, part of society must have the necessary knowledge and skills. Next, they have to ensure and gain public trust and autonomy in their action. Finally, set high moral standards that reflect the values of society.
In Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper, the main character, a sniper, is in the middle of a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. It is his assigned duty to assassinate anyone on the the other side of the war, no matter who they are. This creates a huge conflict, considering that the sniper ends up killing his brother. This supports the central theme that war is cruel, and this can be supported by the craft elements of the dialogue used and the setting of the story.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque exemplifies the atrocities that occur during times of war. War is brutal, war is terrible, and war is inhumane. During World War I, war affected soldiers in ways like never before. The new trench warfare technique in addition to new war technology made the battlefield a literal living hell. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, the excerpt from In the Field by Tim O’Brien, and the poems “Battlefield” by August Stramm and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, the theme of the horrors of war is used to display the awful things that happen in war.