Man's inhumanity to man
- Created by: nfawre
- Created on: 19-04-15 15:49
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- Man's inhumanity/ humanity to man/ woman
- Drama
- Journey's End
- Hibbert's pleading- Stanhope's harshness towards him
- Stanhop'e emotion at the death of Raleigh (Humanity)
- German's allow British to retrieve wounded solider "carry him"-even 'fired some lights' for their better visibility
- Hibbert described as worm by Stanhope- dehumanises him
- Accrington Pals
- Authur marrying the pregnant Annie- humanity to woman who would otherwise be an outcast
- Highlights the degradation of women at the time-inequality
- Journey's End
- Prose
- Birdsong
- Stephen embraces Weir after the Somme (very out of character) Stephen 'wrapped' his arms around a sobbing Weir
- Men called Sewer rats. They are treated like animals"The men queued naked for the baths that had been set up in a long barn"
- Stephen treats the prostitute in a very inhumane way, running a knife along her.
- When Jack falls asleep and faces court marshall Stephen treats him inhumanly elongating his turmoil.
- The soldiers see a mass grave being dug for them as they march to battle. no consideration for what this must do to them.
- Controversial- not allowing the gassed boy to die (when Stephen is in hospital) also forcing the nurse to care for him.
- Regeneration
- The electric shock system used to treat the effects of psychological trauma from war (used by London doctor, Rivers forced to watch)
- Burns lies naked in the forest with the dead animals- war has made him less human.
- Prior originally courts Sarah so he can sleep with her- he has no interest in her as a person.
- Rivers treats the men at Craiglockhart like human beings- it is his way if restoring them to normality.
- Birdsong
- Poetry
- Strange meeting, Wilfred Owen- highlights how both sides are human but can still commit inhuman acts. "I am the enemy you killed my friend","Let us sleep now" pronoun US signifies equality.
- Dulce et decorum est, Wilfred Owen- "Bent double like old beggars under sacks"- not pictured as the fighting fit boys they had been-war has dehumanised them/ taken their youth.
- Anthem for doomed youth, Wilfred Owen- Men "like cattle"
- Futility, Wilfred Owen- the humanity of those speaking "move him into the sun"- suggests desperation /love for life.
- Exposure, Wilfred Owen- the slow and painful death the soldiers face at the hands of the weather "merciless iced east winds"
- Drama
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