Physical and Psychological effects of war
Yellow=mental and physical effects
Blue=loss of faith
Red=coping mechanisms
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- Physical and Psychological effects of war (mental health /loss of faith/ coping mechanisms.
- Drama
- Journey's End
- Journey' End-Trotter talks about normal everyday topics such as food "Ha! Give me apricots every time!"
- Journey's End- Stanhop desensitised to war- "casually" points gun at Hibbert, no hesitation demonstrating the effect of war.
- Journey's End- Stanhope's use of alcohol "drinking like a fish as usual" emphasised by Raleigh that the war has caused him to drink.
- Hibbert possibly has shell shock and is treated like a coward-he is scared but hides it behind illness "If you only knew how awful I feel"-Stanhope admits he feels the same
- Accrington Pals
- Accrington Pals-May diverts her attention to her business
- Arthur is very religious- his last letter in scene 1 says why he is fighting- he does not lose faith it is reaffirmed.
- however the only way he can deal with the war is through believing it is a punishment from God "It is his second flood, though now by steel instead of water"
- Journey's End
- Prose
- Birdsong
- Weir is so affected that he sobs to Stephen asking him to call him by his name
- Soldiers take on more femanine roles as a coping mechanism i.e Weir is more effeminate in his role with Stephen e.g his clothing.
- Stephen- violence-holds a knife to the prostitute
- Loss of faith in Horrock the chaplain "Horrocks threw his cross on the floor"
- Stephen and Weir reliant on alcohol
- Regeneration
- Shellshock affects the soldiers in different ways- mutes them gives then nightmares etc
- Billy Prior stops speaking due to the immense trauma experienced in the war/ doesn't want to speak of his experiences
- Craiglockhart is a psychiatric hospital so the whole setting surrounds psychological problems- every character is effected by the war whether directly or indirectly.
- Wilfred Owen had shellshock but he's just one of many. Rivers is affected by the men he treats. Burns traumatised after being launched into German corpse
- Birdsong
- Poetry
- Exposure (Wilfred Owens)
- Psychological- "Brains ache"
- physical- freeze to death. Animalistic imagery-dehumanises men.
- Mental cases (Wilfred Owen) "drooping tongues"- dehumanisation. "never rest" psycological effects
- Strange meeting (Wilfred Owen) suggests Hell and death are better than life. Also suggests sense of guilt...
- For the Fallen- live forever in the minds of others... psychological effects on those at home.
- Futility (Wilfred Owen) sibilance lenghens words like exhaustion emphasising mental fatigue
- Recalling war (Robert Graves) "one armed man" "visions of despair"-shows the war has had a detrimental impact on the survivors
- Dulce et decorum est (Wilfred Owen) "coughing like hags" shows physical effects of war- dehumanisation
- Exposure (Wilfred Owens)
- Drama
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