The Reality of War Exposed in Journeys End by R.C Sheriff :: English Literature

The Reality of War Exposed in Journeys End by R.C SheriffIn the play Journeys end R.C Sherrif recreates the redoubtedstress and fear by the men at the front in the First World War. Inthis essay I am going to nidus on two characters, who show stress andfear. The two characters the essay will focus on are Stanhope, who isthe captain and Hibbert who is an officer. A couple of backgroundrealities roughly the war are that it started in 1914 and a numerouscountries were changed like Germany and England. This war wasdissimilar to other wars that were formerly fought because they usedmore up to date weapons much(prenominal) as gas bombs and machine guns. It wasestimated that nine million people died. R.C Sherriff was once himselfin the World War one, as an officer in the East Surrey Regiment. Hewas injured in the battle of Passchendael in 1917. Journeys end isbased upon his past experiences in the war - reflecting the way he andhis comrades lived and fought and repeating some of its even ts. R.CSherriff wrote other play, a few novels and quite a few film scripts.R.C Sherriff is best remembered for Journeys End.R.C Sherriff reconstructs the war in Journeys end by making theaudience feel as if they are there in the war with the characters. Theplay is based in the officers remove out, which was where the most actiontook place. In do to make the audience feel as if they were therein the war R.C Sherriff made notes in the stage directions like forexample the red and green smooth of German alarm rockets comes faintlythrough the dugout door in this example the stage which the playwould be carried out would have been pitch coloured and red greenflashing lights and loud bangs which represents the war, it makes itas if the audience feel as if they were there. The audience would feellike they involved with the characters because of personal things theywere saying, for example an argument.The dug out which is shown in most scenes of the play, where it isset is very small wi th only one table. The situations in the trencheswould have been extremely uncomfortable for the men this can be verystressful for the men at times. This can be noticed from certainthings in the characters actions, Captain hardy a red faced demonstrablelooking man is sitting on a box by the table, he concentrated ondrying his sock over a candle shine.