Inconvenience Of War Analysis

War is an inconvenience that destroys everything. To Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth, the first world war started out as a personal inconvenience. However as time passes and the war drags on, she later realizes that the war is also a universal inconvenience that spares no one and nothing. War affects thousands, and destroys everything in it’s path. Brittain’s changing viewpoint on war is shown in chapter eight, passage three, taken from pages 370-372. The passage shows her obvious disdain for the destruction the war has caused not only physically, but emotionally as well. She equates the destruction of the environment to the emotional destruction that the war caused. Brittain writes this passage in order to show how the war not only destroyed her life, but also thousands of other things around her. I chose this passage because I believe it shows how
For much of the text, a reader can see that Brittain is struggling with the acceptance of her friends’ deaths and her other losses such as Oxford. I think I connected with the passage about the environment because it was at this point that Brittain realizes she was not the only one destroyed by the war. It is here that she understands what the war meant to the world as a whole. Brittain’s experiences have led to her maturity. I also chose this passage because of its complexity and underlying meaning to war in the future. This passage was Brittain’s way of showing how she does not enjoy war. She does not enjoy the destruction of war whether it be physical or emotional. This is Brittain’s sort of “cry for help” for the future generations. She is subtly imploring that the future generations take into account the destruction of war before going into it. I believe that the passage ties the book theme together as a whole. War is destructive and spares