Saturday, February 9, 2019
R.C. Sheriffs Journeys End :: Journeys End English Literature War Essays
R.C. Sheriffs Journeys EndJourneys end was initial produced on 9th December 1928. The play waspresented on 21st January 1929. R.C.Sherrif did not act out to glorifywar he set out to record the reality, devastation and what life wasactually like during the war. R.C.Sherrif had been a soldier so thosethat knew what it was like saw his portrayal of warfare as authentic.He does this through with(predicate) eyes of officers, which is different to how it isdone by most play writers, as their role is more senior and afterdoing their duties they besides reserve duty for other men andtheir lives. The five principal roles in Journeys end are of fourofficers Osborne, Raleigh, Trotter and Hibbert but there is alsoStanhope who is the commander of c company. They all represent verydifferent characters, Osborne is a very level-headed, older moremature person. Raleigh is a teenage boy who has just left school. Hefinds the war very excite and he is enthusiastic about it. Trotteris a fat, jolly variety show who loves his food he is a very homely man.Stanhope is the authoritarian understood he needs alcohol to cope but hetakes his patronage very seriously. Hibbert is basically a waste of space heis a malingerer as he tries to mend home by faking an affection itbackfires on him though as Stanhope has the same illness and he isstill there, he refuses to let Hibbert go home, yet Hibbert says hewill go anyways but then Stanhope talks him into staying. I thinkR.C.Sherrif uses five wad with very different characteristics andemotions to show how different people cope with the stresses of theWar. action leash scenerys one and two offer the first dramatic move inJourneys end. Most of the play up to this psyche is building up,conversation between the officers, with them building Raleighs intimacy of what will happen during the big raid. At the beginning ofAct three scene one the colonel comes to see if everything is ready.When they do the raid and get the German Soldier, they dont find outmuch. I think R.C.Sherrif does this because with him sharp what lifewas like in the war he is trying to get the point across to theaudience that things dont always go as they are planned. Then whenyou find out Osborne and Men have been killed it seems like a waste oftime and lives. In the next scene when you see how all the men feel,it really feels authentic to how the men would of felt and makes you
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