Society generally expects soldiers to employ the martial values. Military personnel should be heroic, willing to die defending their homeland and blindly follow their leaders. Fear refutes all of those norms with brute honesty, gore, humor and sarcasm. It should be required reading before anyone takes the oath of office and receives the nuclear codes.
When speaking to heroism the interaction between Dartemont and Mademoiselle Berginol, quite bluntly states, “Pure heroes are as rare as geniuses. And if in order to get one hero you have to blow ten thousand men to pieces, then we can do without heroes” (p. 112). This was not what the nurses wanted to hear and was quite contrary to the image they had concocted for themselves of soldiers who
When speaking to heroism the interaction between Dartemont and Mademoiselle Berginol, quite bluntly states, “Pure heroes are as rare as geniuses. And if in order to get one hero you have to blow ten thousand men to pieces, then we can do without heroes” (p. 112). This was not what the nurses wanted to hear and was quite contrary to the image they had concocted for themselves of soldiers who