The Reality Of War Exposed In Journeys End By R
The Reality of War Exposed in Journeys End by R.C Sheriff
In the play “Journey’s end” R.C Sherriff recreates the tremendous stress and fear by the men at the front in the First World War. In this essay I am going to focus on two characters, who show stress and fear. The two characters are Stanhope, who is the captain and Hibbert who is an officer.
R.C Sherriff reconstructs the war in Journey’s end by making the audience feel as if they are there in the war with the characters. The play is based in the officer’s dugout, which was where the most action took place. In order to make the audience feel as if they were there in the war R.C Sherriff made notes in the stage directions like for example “the red and green glow of German alarm rockets comes faintly through the dugout door” in this example the stage which the play would be carried out would have been pitch black and red green flashing lights and loud bangs which represents the war, it makes it as if the audience feel as if they were there. The audience would feel like they involved with the characters because of personal things they were saying, for example an argument. The word alarm” implies that it was just waiting to go off and set at a certain time to just explode. This could be used as a metaphor for the whole play as it is just waiting around for something to happen or an argument to erupt.
The set is very small with only one table conveying the point that the men didn’t exactly live in luxury out there. The situations in the trenches would have been extremely uncomfortable for the men; this can be very stressful for the men at times. This can be noticed from certain things in the characters actions, “Captain Hardy a red faced positive looking man is sitting on a box by the table, he concentrated on drying his sock over a candle flame”. In this quote it shows that he would of got his feet constantly wet because of the trench being so damp and wet, they call this ‘trench foot’. In the trenches there
In the play “Journey’s end” R.C Sherriff recreates the tremendous stress and fear by the men at the front in the First World War. In this essay I am going to focus on two characters, who show stress and fear. The two characters are Stanhope, who is the captain and Hibbert who is an officer.
R.C Sherriff reconstructs the war in Journey’s end by making the audience feel as if they are there in the war with the characters. The play is based in the officer’s dugout, which was where the most action took place. In order to make the audience feel as if they were there in the war R.C Sherriff made notes in the stage directions like for example “the red and green glow of German alarm rockets comes faintly through the dugout door” in this example the stage which the play would be carried out would have been pitch black and red green flashing lights and loud bangs which represents the war, it makes it as if the audience feel as if they were there. The audience would feel like they involved with the characters because of personal things they were saying, for example an argument. The word alarm” implies that it was just waiting to go off and set at a certain time to just explode. This could be used as a metaphor for the whole play as it is just waiting around for something to happen or an argument to erupt.
The set is very small with only one table conveying the point that the men didn’t exactly live in luxury out there. The situations in the trenches would have been extremely uncomfortable for the men; this can be very stressful for the men at times. This can be noticed from certain things in the characters actions, “Captain Hardy a red faced positive looking man is sitting on a box by the table, he concentrated on drying his sock over a candle flame”. In this quote it shows that he would of got his feet constantly wet because of the trench being so damp and wet, they call this ‘trench foot’. In the trenches there