Stress and Fear on the Western Front, Illustrated in Sheriffs Play, Journeys End :: Literary Analysis, Literary Criticism

Journeys End by R.C. Sherriff is filled with very tense scenes throughout the play one in particular and the focus eyeshade on this essay is routine Two scene One, which endeavours to educate the audience about the true horrors of liveness at the front. Sherriff, who was wounded at Passchendaele in 1917, wrote from his get word of the war. He creates scenes that are very realistic, and because of his experiences, it helps the audience to believe the play more and understand the difficulties the soldiers faced. The title, Journeys End creates a negative image immediately. It implies death, the end of life and the loss of innocence. Act Two scene one shows this in great depth, as Sherriff uses methods to re-create the overwhelming test of trench warfare. He describes every aspect of the trenches, the guns and the whole life to emphasises the tragedy. With this understanding of the trenches, the reader are helped in imagining what it must have been like to live there. In the play , R.C Sheriff looks into the characters in the dug out, Fear within this play takes a dramatic impact on most of the play it also shows how different people in the same situation coped in the first world war, Humour, Alcohol, or Normality before the war.Act Two scene One looks into the emotions of the characters especially the officers, Stanhope, Osborne, Raleigh, Trotter, Hibbert and the cook Mason, an example of this is trotter he hides his emotions by being humours with mason as he keeps his mind on food Trotter well theres nothing like a good fat bacon rasher when your as empty as I am, Mason Im glad you like it fat sir. Trotter well, I like a bit O lean, too, this shows that the writer is showing the reader that people dealt with stress and business concern in different ways, however when comparing this to Stanhope he copes with all this stress and fear by drinking sitting on the bed was Stanhope drinking a whisky this shows the audience how people dealt with stress and fear e ven if they were in exclusively different ways.R.C. Sheriff uses the character Osborne another officer in the dug out differently as Osborne is not a character in which shows the fear and stress in which he is going through instead he trys to avoid a intercourse about the war and tries to drag the conversation on to something else to remind himself of normality, his life before the war started made me think about my garden, Trotter.