Journey's End - Context
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- Journey's End - Context
- Alcohol
- Army didn't like Sherriff's depiction of alcohol in the army
- Didn't romanticise the effects of war so needed to show coping mechanisms
- Sherriff
- Play written in 1928
- Set in Northern France in 1918
- Was in the army
- Almost died in 1917 - took a month to recover
- Wrote play for Soldier's
- Didn't romanticise because they had experienced it and could relate
- Play written in 1928
- Shell Shock
- In 1917 first special hospital to treat shell shock created
- Considered unmanly and cowardly
- Seen as an excuse to leave war
- Could lead to death by firing squad for cowardice
- Initially often shocked or pain was inflicted to help them become more manly
- 40 % of casualties occurred due to shellshock
- Believed to be more as lower ranks were not reported
- Trench Life
- Summer = Flies
- Winter = Wet
- All year round = rat infestation
- Censorship
- Helped maintain moral
- So enemy couldn't intercept and get info
- Everything censored - Radio, tv, soldiers, letters, play etc
- regimental officers censored soldier letters
- Alcohol
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