women and the war
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- Created on: 03-03-14 16:20
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- Women and the war
- sub theme: nightmares/horror
- Poetry
- A War Film-Teresa Hooley
- "the sudden terror that assaulted me"
- personification and violent imagery
- war is an almost oppressive force
- left women paralysed with anxiety/fear about a repeat
- recurring nightmares and paranoia
- A04: war was not expected in 1914, it was 'sudden'
- inspired by film on Battle of Mons
- First war where women would have been aware of horrors faced by men at war
- aggressive and militant field of words
- Prose
- Forgive me, Mother- Evadene Price
- "raving, blaspheming creature"
- depicts horrors women face as nurses
- idea that women should not be linked to war/violence
- animalistic and violent imagery, war is dehumanising and not masculating
- A04: pre-war suffragette movement introduce women to violence?
- Poetry
- sub theme: grief
- grief
- Perhaps- Vera Brittain
- "Although bereft of You"
- grief
- sub theme: nightmares/horror
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