R.C. Sheriffs Journeys End :: Journeys End English Literature War Essays

R.C. Sheriffs Journeys EndJourneys end was starting signal produced on 9th December 1928. The play waspresented on 21st January 1929. R.C.Sherrif did not roundabout out to glorifywar he set out to fate the reality, devastation and what life wasactually like during the war. R.C.Sherrif had been a soldier so thosethat knew what it was like saw his portrayal of warfare as authentic.He does this finished eyes of officers, which is different to how it isdone by most play writers, as their role is more senior and afterdoing their duties they similarly progress to office for other men andtheir lives. The five principal roles in Journeys end are of fourofficers Osborne, Raleigh, Trotter and Hibbert but there is alsoStanhope who is the commander of c company. They all represent verydifferent characters, Osborne is a very level-headed, older moremature person. Raleigh is a green boy who has just left school. Hefinds the war very fire and he is enthusiastic about it. Trotteris a fat, j olly secernate who loves his food he is a very homely man.Stanhope is the authoritarian in so far he needs alcohol to cope but hetakes his short letter very seriously. Hibbert is basically a waste of space heis a malingerer as he tries to array home by faking an nausea itbackfires on him though as Stanhope has the same illness and he is even there, he refuses to let Hibbert go home, yet Hibbert says hewill go anyways but then Stanhope talks him into staying. I thinkR.C.Sherrif uses five peck with very different characteristics andemotions to show how different people cope with the stresses of theWar. doing tether facets one and two offer the first dramatic separate inJourneys end. Most of the play up to this fate is building up,conversation between the officers, with them building Raleighs knowledge of what will happen during the big raid. At the beginning ofAct three scene one the colonel comes to see if everything is ready.When they do the raid and get the German Soldier, they dont find outmuch. I think R.C.Sherrif does this because with him discerning what lifewas like in the war he is trying to get the point across to theaudience that things dont always go as they are planned. Then whenyou find out Osborne and Men have been killed it seems like a waste oftime and lives. In the next scene when you see how all the men feel,it really feels authentic to how the men would of entangle and makes you