David Malouf in the novel Fly away Peter and Peter Weir in the film Gallipoli, both express the dangers and effects of war on individuals. Malouf and Weir convey how the war affects individuals, both emotionally and physically, targeting audiences from teenagers to adults. Both authors utilise both narrative and cinematic techniques to further explore this idea. Both authors utilises the experiences of their characters in the situation of war with their intended effect to warn people against going into war. Both authors utilises the techniques of characterisation, setting, symbolism, and perspective to further develop the ideas.
Malouf and Weir explores the idea of how the war affects certain individuals by utilising characterisation. Both
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Both authors are able to capture the drastic change from where the characters first lived, which was mainly peaceful and where they are able to live normal lives to the time of war where both authors convey the horrific environment that the characters were exposed to as their lives are always in danger. Both texts were originally set from Australia to the country of the war, with Malouf setting it on the Western Front and Weir in Gallipoli. Malouf utilises descriptive language to convey the change in environment. He initially sets the text in Queensland, where Jim initially lived as a caretaker of the estuary. Queensland represents the peaceful life that Jim had as he enjoyed his passion. But the change of setting to the Western Front by Malouf was conveyed as ‘the beginning of a stampede’ where ‘Jim found himself in [a place] unlike anything he had ever imagined’ as it made him became traumatised by the surroundings as he found himself trapped in war. This represents the nightmare that Jim endured as his expectations misled him to experience the traumatic stress building up during the war. Weir utilises camera angles to further convey the shifting of settings. Archy initially lives in Western Australia as he established himself as a sprinter. The extra-long shots of the Perth desert where both Archy and Frank travel to enlist in the army signified the journey and the sacrifice where both characters had to make when they wanted to join the army. While also conveying the distance of Archy from Jack as he travelled further away from his family. The final pause medium shot of Archy being shot and falling forwards like a sprinter at the finish line, the pause was utilised to create the sense of irony as his life of sprinting eventually lead to him sprinting to his death. Ultimately, both authors
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...display how the average citizen would see war for the first time. Colonel Kelly sees her as “vacant and almost idiotic. She had taken refuge in deaf, blind, unfeeling shock” (Vonnegut 100). To a citizen who even understands the war process, war is still heinous and dubiously justified when viewed first hand. The man who seems to have coldly just given away her son’s life without the same instinct as her has participated in this heinous wartime atrocity for so long, but it only affect her now because she cannot conceive of the reality of it until it is personally in front of her. That indicates a less complete political education of war even among those who war may have affected their entire lives. The closeness and the casualties of this “game” will affect her the most because she has to watch every move that previously could have been kept impartial and unviewed.
Erich Maria Remarque's classic war novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, deals with the many ways in which World War I affected people's lives, both the lives of soldiers on the front lines and the lives of people on the homefront. One of the most profound effects the war had was the way it made the soldiers see human life. Constant killing and death became a part of a soldier's daily life, and soldiers fighting on all sides of the war became accustomed to it. The atrocities and frequent deaths that the soldiers dealt with desensitized them to the reality of the vast quantities of people dying daily. The title character of the novel, Paul Bäumer, and his friends experience the devaluation of human life firsthand, and from these experiences they become stronger and learn to live as if every day were their last.
As can be seen, Paul Boyer, Tim O’Brien, and Kenneth W. Bagby, convey the notion that war affects the one’s self the most. Through the use of literary devices: tone, mood, pathos, and imagery, these 3 authors portray that war affects a person’s self most of all. War is not only a battle between two opposing sides, but it can also be a mental conflict created within a person. Although war is able to have an effect on physical relationships between family, friends, or even society, conflict within oneself is the most inevitable battle one must face during war times.
and social aspects of the war. In doing so, he illustrates how the war affected the development of
There is a major change in the men in this novel. At first, they are excited to join the army in order to help their country. After they see the truth about war, they learn very important assets of life such as death, destruction, and suffering. These emotions are learned in places like training camp, battles, and hospitals. All the men, dead or alive, obtained knowledge on how to deal with death, which is very important to one’s life.
In a world of chaos and conflict the value of society is often demeaned. Warfare affects the difficulty of coping mechanisms and leads to isolation and abandonment. Both in Earnest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” and in J.G.Ballard’s “Empire of the Sun” the protagonists are distraught and torn by warfare. “The Sun Also Rises” follows the journey of Jake Barnes a post-World War one veteran whereas “Empire of the Sun” follows the journey and maturation of a young boy during the time period of World War two. Throughout both stories, warfare experiences and situations psychologically and emotionally distress the protagonist’s and are leading factors as to how they’re dehumanized. When it comes to the genuine components of the stories, specifically the change in trauma, loss of innocence, dilemma in character vs character, and the life transition construct theme and conflict.
The author meticulously adds many events and context to really show how war seemed pointless to the soldiers and that it was destructive. Of the many themes in the story, there are three that do an excellent job of proving the pointlessness and destructiveness of the war; human destruction, lost generation, and moral
One of the themes in the novel is the subject of clashing ideals. The main character of the novel, Tim, lives in a divided family who each has their own opinion on the war– the
I would recommend this book to a friend because the reader is able to comprehend different aspects of the war. This novel is written in an upfront style, which makes it easy for the reader to follow along. I am thinking about including something about how war gives soldiers mental disorders for my thesis argument. I would like to write about the mental health of our troops for my research paper. I intend to focus on psychological disorders and mental illness.
Timothy Findley Creates a fictional world through his novels, where readers can relate to the situations and characters. The protagonists that Findley creates are often similar and connected to the hardships that they eventually encounter and defeat or that which they are defeated by. Findley takes his readers back in time to the First World War, displaying his knowledge of history and research, where the hardships of a young soldier’s battles internally and externally are brought to the reader’s attention in his historical-fiction novel The Wars. Findley writes about the reality and absurdity of the First World War, and takes the reader’s on a journey through the active reading process to find what is “sane” and “Insane” throughout the duration of the novel. Following the journey of the protagonist, Robert Ross as he enlists in the Canadian Army after the death of his sister Rowena, and undoubtedly is the turning point of the text and ideally where Findley initiates the active reading process, and where the contents placed in the story by Findley, are analyzed and opinionated based on the reader’s perception and subjectivity of truth. Essayist Anne Reynolds writes “ Findley manages, through technical prowess, to combine Hemingway-like choices of clear moment searing horror and truth at the battlefront with scenes depicting the effects of war on the families and lovers of the soldiers.” (Reynolds, 4) According to Reynolds Findley has been able to display the absurdity and affect that not only the First World War has caused but the ludicrousness war in general has caused the families of soldiers, and society as a whole. Using the literary theory of deconstruction many aspects and scenarios in The Wars can be analyzed, as Fin...
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Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque’s novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front”. War is by far the most horrible thing that the human race has to go through. The participants in the war suffer irreversible damage by the atrocities they witness and the things they go through.
Director Peter Berg based this movie off of Marcus luttrell the survivor of Operation Red Wings. This powerful war film features actor Mark Walberg who portrays the real life situation of Marcus Lutrell. The movie is centered on patriotism and the struggles that the soldiers faced. Peter Berg displays the mental and physical suffering that soldiers go through during battle. The film begins with troops training preforming exercises, drills, and tests that regular individuals could not imagine. The beginning of the film is an important part in setting the tone that is seen throughout the movie. The producer sets the film up in a realistic manner that showcases morality, brotherhood, and honor.