(anti) patriotism
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- Created on: 24-04-15 16:40
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- (Anti-) Patriotism
- Drama
- Journey's End
- Osborne: "There's something rather romantic about it all"
- Raleigh's blind patriotism: "Yes.Keen to get out here. I was frightfully keen to get into Dennis' regiment."
- Trotter reminisces of his flower bed "red, blue and white"
- Accrington pals
- Anti patriotic sentiment expressed through Sarah
- On the home front Eva dresses up as Britania and performs a patriotic song but cannot continue due to her negative opinion towards the war
- goes against what she believes and she cannot continue to act as propoganda
- Journey's End
- Prose
- Birdsong
- anti patriotic-" This is not war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded"
- Niether Jack, Weir or Stephen joined the Army for patriotic reasons (more personal)
- Azaire patriotic- volunteers as a prisoner to the Germans
- Regeneration
- Sassoon anti patriotic- "I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberatio, has now become a war of agression and conquest" (declaration)
- Birdsong
- Poetry
- Jessie Pope- 'Who's for the game'
- Paints war as a picture of a game you play for your country- a bad sport not to join in etc
- 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'- "The old lie: Dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori"
- suggests that the establishment has been lying to everyone
- Rupert Brooke- 'The Soldier' "If I should die think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign firld that is forever England"
- Glorifies England as a mother to protect
- Sassoon- 'The Hero' "How he'd tried to get sent home, and how, at last, he died, blown to small bits"
- Bitter, suggests not everyone stayed patriotic- mother looks brave because it is what she is supposed to do...
- The Volunteer- suggests fighting for your country fulfills you
- epitaphs of war
- Jessie Pope- 'Who's for the game'
- Drama
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