Themes - Journey's End
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- Themes
- Courage and Cowardice
- Stanhope depends on drinking alcohol for courage
- Hibbert shows us what focusing on death can do to the nerves and health, it is never made clear if Hibbert is just a coward or has a real mental illnes
- Osborne gives advice to Raleigh "You must always think of it… as romantic. It helps"
- Sherriff helps us to see how humans can gain courage from others- diverting thoughts "displacement strategies":
- Humour
- Complaining about food Private Mason "Smells like liver, sir, but it 'asn’t got that smooth, wet look that liver’s got"
- reading Alice in Wonderland a childhood book
- Heroism
- Stanhope’s real fear is his status back home as a 'hero' will be blown - the desperate way he "clutches Raleigh’s wrist and tears the letter from his hand" - a letter which could reveal his drinking
- Raleigh’s boyish patriotic myth of the 'hero' as some kind of knight in shining armour, and the way he hero-worships Stanhope
- Trench Life
- matter of waiting
- prolonged waiting was an untold horror of war - helps the play create a subtle anti-war message.
- Social Class
- Sherriff wanted to show how war brought everyone together.
- Community and comradeship
- Stanhope’s encouragement of Hibbert suggest to the audience - importance of "getting on together".
- Even the idea of "enemy" is brought into question as we are reminded by Raleigh that Germans are just ordinary people.
- hen Raleigh is dying, he calls Stanhope "Dennis" who replies, to the audience’s surprise with "Jimmy".
- Courage and Cowardice
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