This essay is based on the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, Goodbyeee, where they finally go over the top to fight the Germans. There are many different types of deprivation especially when it comes to the soldiers that are in the trench.

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Blackadder Goes Forth - Goodbyeee - Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Deprivation

This essay is based on the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, Goodbyeee, where they finally go over the top to fight the Germans. There are many different types of deprivation especially when it comes to the soldiers that are in the trench. There are two main parts to this deprivation, they are physical and emotional. The physical deprivation also normally led to emotional deprivation.

Prime examples of physical deprivation within the episode would be the lack of food supplies including drinks such as tea and coffee where Blackadder asks Baldrick to make him a cup of coffee and Baldrick has to improvise as they have run out of a lot of items so he has to use mud as coffee, dandruff as sugar and saliva as milk. Another being the lack of equipment where Melchett and Blackadder are talking about a previous war where the opposition did not have heavy machine guns but now the Germans do and Blackadder and the troops do not have weapons to