Journey’s End Course Work
Journey's End Course Work Re-working of Act 1 It is a dark evening, some time in February. On the ground is nothing but sand, except for a small crevice, which has some wooden beams protruding from it. In the hole you can see a faint glow of ultra violet lights flickering. Inside the hole, is a large dark room lit above by one large ultra violet light. To one side of the room are a couple of lockers made of wire mesh. These lockers contain assault rifles, magazines, grenades and body armour. Clothes and other miscellaneous objects are strewn about the floor. We see a solitary soldier sitting on a foldable chair. He is looking inside his ration box, pushing things aside, etc. The soldier is still wearing his helmet. He leans to one side and fumbles his hand along the floor until he finds a mess tin. He pours some substance from the ration box into the tin and places it on top of a lighter block. He swishes the baked beans around the tin, while humming a song. Rick: Ooh eeh, Oooh ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang ..... I told the witch doctor .... doo dee doo doo doo. All of a sudden we see a person climbing down the "supposed" crevice. Rick grabs his rifle and points it towards the person. The light illuminates the person's face and we see that it is Mark Osborne, a short tubby guy with pale skin. He waddles in as Rick rests the rifle against his
Creative Writing - Western
David Shears Western Nigel Glover Some stupid cowboy guy went into a dump of a town called Wisbech. The local Sheriff came up to him, "what are you doing here," he asked. "None of your business," replied the stranger calmly. "Ok, pay your tax," said the sheriff. "Go to hell!" said the Stranger, as he dived to the side drawing his Colt 45 pistol, firing only one shot towards the small town sheriff, the stranger rolled behind a barrel then ran off down a back alley behind the saloon. The bullet hit a window just next to the sheriff, shattering it. The shot automatically brought out the deputy sheriff from the sheriff's office; he appeared with a benneli 12 ball shotgun poised ready to protect his sheriff. The deputy ran over to the sheriff, "I'm too old for this crap," the sheriff said just after what seemed a never ending sigh. Days passed without any sighting of this certain stranger, but things had started to happen, things that hadn't happened previously such as bread and beer being stolen, a horse equipped with a saddle, shotgun and rounds had been stolen during the night from outside the blacksmiths. On April the 9th this stranger decided to go for a drink, he rode the stolen horse right up to the side of the saloon, jumped off and slowly walked in. He walked up to the bar sat down and shouted "service! Service." The bar tender strolled up
Journey's End by R.C. Sheriff - review
Journey's End by R.C. Sheriff "Journey's End" is a dramatic and powerful play about the First World War, which is written by R.C. Sheriff in 1920s. It talks about the life of British soldiers in trenches. Unlike the previous plays about the First World War, it does not emphasize the glory but the horror and death of the First World War. Soldiers left their friends, parents and homeland to war, fighting for their land because of the sense of duty and loyalty; the cost might be really harsh. Death, the word everyone fears; War, causing millions of soldiers, citizens to death. Does anyone really win in a war? In the "Journey's End", there are 7 characters (Stanhope, Osbourne, Raleigh, Hibbert, Trotter, mason and the German Prisoner.) They are all united with the external forces of war: Stanhope - Stanhope is a young officer, he has a big change because of what he saw in the war, and he is the only one who survived from lots of battles for 3 years (He came out straight from school - when he was eighteen. He's commanded this company for a year......... Other men come over here and go home again ill... Act 1 Scene 1 P.6) Stanhope has a reputation for drinking. I think he is using alcohol to forget the changes. Everytime he meets Raleigh or when Raleigh calls him 'Dennis', Stanhope treats him really badly because he will remember his past and changes on himself (.........Did I
Twentieth Century Drama; Journey's End.
Twentieth Century Drama; Journey's End. Journey's End is a hard-hitting drama, which was written by R.C Sherrif. This play is based upon his real life experiences during the world war one. The writer, R.C. Serriff, uses various dramatic devices to create impact. The candles in the dugout are one example of this. They are used by Sherriff to symbolise the relationships between the inhabitants of the dugout. At the start of the scene the lights are extinguished and the dugout is completely black. This darkness is used to show the tense atmosphere after the argument between Raleigh and Stanhope the night before. The war was a total chaos; people were killed in large numbers everyday. People you loved, respected, admired would die. People dealt with stress in many ways like Stanhope's drinking clearly dramatises the stress of war. Stanhope would drink whisky to deal with stress, Hibbert claimed he had neuralgia in attempt to get sick leave to go home, Trotter carved circles to make the days faster. Unarguably, I would say the status of living in the trenches life was a complete misery and very depressing. In contrast to this there are two characters in the play that are nothing but cheery all the way through, despite the unexpected attack and the whole depressing status of living in the trenches. These are Private Mason and Trotter. They are both from a working class
Comparison of Ballad of the Bread Man and Innocents Song by Charles Causley and Journey of the Magi by T. S. Eliot
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20th Century Drama - Journey's End, R C Sheriff
20th Century Drama - Journey's End, R C Sheriff Thomas Robson 30/10/2001 The play, Journey's End, was written by R C Sheriff just ten years after the First World War in 1929. The play is set in a single dark, damp dugout amongst a front line trench, which has probably been chosen to give a very claustrophobic outlook to the entire piece. All of the events occur throughout just four short days, which I think is purposely tight in order to add tension and to show the futility of the war, how a whole company of men could be wiped out within a few short days. The script is based mainly on the relationships, situation and most importantly the conflict which occurs between men in the trenches. The inner conflict of the characters is also a principal feature of the script and adds physiological weight to the play, perhaps playing on the audiences' own experiences with inner conflict. There are four primary characters. These are the officers, all of whom have attended public school and are of higher social and military rank to the 'men'. Sheriff often emphasises the partition and stringent class system amongst the trenches and England at that time by describing the characters as 'the officers' or 'the men'. I believe that he has kept the number of central characters in the play and places them all within a single setting to create a magnifying glass effect, focussing on the
An exploration of the changing relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh and how it develops through Journeys End
An exploration of the changing relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh and how it develops through "Journey's End" R.C Sherriff, a famous play writer born in 1896, lived during the outbreak of the First World War, joining the army and serving as captain in the east surrey regiment. It was this experience during his lifetime that enabled him to produce works such as "Journeys End", which was first performed for the first time in 1928, featuring famous actor Laurence Olivier as Stanhope. Sherriff was also renown for writing the screen plays "The Dam Busters" (1955) and "No Highway" (1950), to this day proving extremely successful. "Journey's End" is situated in a British dug out on the 18th March 1918. The dug out, being the only set through out the play, provides the claustrophobic and confined setting the soldiers experienced, but also helps in demonstrating the quick pace of the play. The script is orientated around main characters Stanhope and Raleigh, where the two friends from school are reunited. However, Stanhope shows little welcome, immediately starting tension within the scene. Nether the less, Raleigh, being younger and inexperienced with the war appears naïve and oblivious to Stanhope's cold hearted greeting. Raleigh idolises Stanhope, looking up to him as a hero figure, yet Stanhope, who is become more heavily dependant on alcohol suspects Raleigh is aware of
A cruel bully A fine leader of men Which do you think is the more accurate description of Stanhope? Support your ideas with details from Sherriffs writing.
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Physical Journey
Essay Authors represent journeys through different ways in different texts. Most representations on journeys through texts focus on insights. Insights that authors may use are; lessons can only be learnt from the physical journeys of others if responders are engaged, a physical journey may involve heading into the unknown, some sacrifices are made to accomplish a physical journey, a physical journey is a positive concept, lead to a positive inner journey, a physical journey often involves learning lessons about life and a physical journey often requires movement from one place to another. Authors use techniques to represent physical journeys. Techniques can be used in many ways and as strong or as subtle as authors need. They are metaphors, descriptive language, dialogue, tones, characters, video footage, imagery, environments, physical bodily changes and others. The to be used are 'the road not taken' 'away' 'Jesse' 'first lady' 'on journeys through states' '?????" these texts are examples of how most authors represent the main focus of a issue. The road not taken is a poem that tells the story of a man who come to a time in his life when he has to make a decision. This text supports the idea that a physical journey heading into the unknown, & some sacrifices and choices may have to be made to accomplish a physical journey. The author shows us this through, emotive
Discuss how R.C.Sherriff manages to describe the horrific effects of war on different soldiers like Stanhope, Raleigh and Hibbert.
A Journey's End 'A Journey's End' the phenomenal play was written by R.C.Sherriff. R.C.Sherriff''s opinion about war is that war is futile, but he has more than one opinion like that war is irrational and bloodshed. In this essay I'm going to discuss how R.C.Sherriff manages to describe the horrific effects of war on different soldiers like Stanhope, Raleigh and Hibbert. The soldier who is most emotionally affected by war is Stanhope; this was obvious when he drinks whisky to escape not just from his fears but from everything like the death of Osborne. When Raleigh arrived at "C" company Sherriff used a unique writing technique and that is foreshadowing to show us the conflict that will build up suspense and tension. Raleigh and Stanhope met when he want to send a letter to his sister Madge, Stanhope insisted to censor Raleigh's letter, because he is afraid that Raleigh will write about his drinking problems. Further, along there verbally and physical conflict, suddenly Stanhope turned completely into a different person that we don't know about his other side, the side of viciousness and devilish. Stanhope admitted to Raleigh and clearly shouted at him that they're no longer at school. Then Stanhope took Raleigh's letter for his hands, Stanhope says" Don't "Dennis" me! Stanhope's my name! You're not at school! Go and inspect your rifles!" Stanhope clearly stated that their