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Discuss the main themes that emerge from Sherriff's Journey's end
Title: Discuss the main themes that emerge from Sherriff's Journey's end
Category: Literature / Biographies
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Discuss the main themes that emerge from Sherriff's Journey's end
Sheriff showed a lot of themes in this book, which made it very effective. The main themes were:
Heroism,
The reality of war
Grief/mourning
Irony of the play
Cowardice/fear
Hopelessness of war
The cross section of types of people/officers
The coping of the pressure of war.
Duty
In heroism, in this text, we clearly see that Raleigh tries to be a hero but fails. Raleigh (excitedly): "I say Stanhope's told me about …showed first 75 words of 1717 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1717 total…as he's been in the war long, always doing his duty.
In the text, we see Hibbert try to waste time. Stanhope: you're just wasting time as much as you can". This shows Hibbert is not bothered to do his duty; he'd rather die not being a coward, than going out there and dieing for your country.
In conclusion, all the themes above where used to great effect in this play, by R.C Sherriff.
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