The realities of War
One of the 6 themes for the contextual linking question.
- Created by: RachHarden
- Created on: 29-01-14 09:46
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- The realities of war
- Prose
- Birdsong
- "within two hours they had blown Byrne's head, bit by bit, off his body so that only a hole remained between his shoulders."
- Horrific description from the battle of the Somme in Birdsong
- "So much muscle and blood in the earth"
- "within two hours they had blown Byrne's head, bit by bit, off his body so that only a hole remained between his shoulders."
- Birdsong
- Drama
- Journey's End
- "Couldn't bear being fully conscious all the time"
- He had to drink to go out and face the war
- "You think there's no limit to what a man can bear?"
- Effects of losing a close comerade
- "She doesn't know that if I went up those steps into the front line without being doped with whiskey I'd go mad with fright"
- Stanhope speaking about facing war and how he doesn't want his girlfriend to know he isn't this hero she perceives him as
- "Couldn't bear being fully conscious all the time"
- Blackadder
- "Our soldiers fade away"
- "A war which would be a damn sight simpler if we just stayed in England and shot fifty thousand of our men a week."
- Oh What a Lovely War
- "This is not war sir, it's slaughter"
- Journey's End
- Poetry
- Exposure (Owen)
- The Sentry (Owen)
- Prose
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