Stanhope and Raleigh's Relationship in Journey's End
Intro
In this essay, I will attempt to discuss the changes and development
in the ongoing and differing relationship between Raleigh and
Stanhope. I will pay particular attention to character movement and
speech, sound, lighting and audience reaction.
Robert Cedric Sherriff was born on June 6, 1896, in Hampton Wick,
England. After attending grammar school at Kingston on Thames,
Sherriff worked in his father's insurance business until he entered
the army to serve as captain in the 9th East Surrey Regiment in World
War I. He was wounded at Passchendaele.
Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter is best known for
his World War I play Journey's End, an account of life in the trenches
on the Western Front. Sherriff’s other most famous novel and film
scripts were Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1936) and Odd Man Out (1945).
Summary
“Journey’s End” is set in a British officers trench located in Quentin
(France) during World War One, and is based on the author's own
experiences of the Front Line. The play portrays the life lived by
Lieutenant Trotter, Osborne, Stanhope and Raleigh. After being in the
front line commanding a company for 3 years, Lieutenant Stanhope’s
nerves are a wreck. He is a 21 year-old drunk that is adored by his
Men. When Raleigh, a boy who has just left school uses family
connections to get into the same company as his “old friend”, Stanhope
remembers what he used to be before enrolling: athletic, smart, jovial
and happy. Fearing Raleigh will be disgusted with what he has become,
and write back to his sister (Whom Stanhope is in love with), Stanhope
begins to hate and loathe Raleigh, with apparently no reason.
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Osbourne reads the letter and asks if he should stick it down, I would
then have Stanhope sitting there, emotionless, still with his head in
his hands, just being able to say “Yes…please.”
Conclusion
Stanhope is a young commander ravaged by the horrors of World War One.
He fights his demons at the bottom of every bottle of whiskey, and is
simply trying to keep his head above water and make it through the
war, to make it back to his beloved Madge. When Raleigh, Madge’s
younger brother uses family connections to join his company, Stanhope
sees a skeleton that he’d rather had stayed in the closet. While
staying with Madge during the summer holidays, Raleigh would often tag
along with the young couple, and Stanhope would keep him happy by
being a friend to him. Raleigh eventually begins Hero-Worshipping
Stanhope, seeing him as his best friend.
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he seems to be talking from his head not his heart and is feigning his
emotion kicks in for him. Now he feels all the emotions he was supposed to feel
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