‘’How is the relationship between Raleigh and Stanhope presented in ‘Journeys End’?’’
The relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh is shown throughout the play. As the play progresses we the audience realise we have only just scraped the tip of a large and complex ice berg. In the play we are shown Stanhope and Raleigh have a complex relationship but it is only till Osborne talks to Raleigh when we find out that this is because they knew each other before. Sheriff displays the relationship to us through a young officers looking up to his senior captain, however we also see that Raleigh does not know how much war can change you, this causes tension between the two as Stanhope doesn’t want Raleigh to find out how he has changed. However in …show more content…
This complicates the whole situation as he doesn’t realise how much war has changed Stanhope. This is apparent when he tells Osborne the story of how if Stanhope caught the chaps ‘with a bottle of whiskey’ and ‘the roof blew off’. The reason why this quote is effective is because it contrasts with fact that Stanhope ‘drinks like a fish’. In the play Raleigh is used to contrast all of Stanhope’s ‘old’ point of view with his ‘current’ attitudes towards life. This allows the audience to understand how destructive war can be to a man mentally and physically, so much it can change a soldier’s personality. This makes the audience feel very tense in the beginning scenes as we anticipate Raleigh’s disappointment of his boy hood hero as he sees how much his perspective of life has …show more content…
We see this when Raleigh does not know what to call Stanhope and asks Osborne ‘so I suppose I should call him captain Stanhope’. ’ Sheriff does this to show Raleigh’s ignorance to war and to its unstated rules. The noun ‘captain’ has connotations of leadership and eminence, which unaware to Raleigh, Stanhope doesn’t demand. Also we see that Raleigh did not really have an idea of what war would be like; we know this from when he says to Osborne ‘I thought there would be an awful row up here’. This then again emphasises Raleigh’s ignorance and unknowingness about war life. We then see later on in the play how Raleigh doesn’t understand how to cope with the death of Osborne. We see this when Stanhope and other officers are dinking and laughing and smoking and he asks them ‘how can you drink with Osborne lying out there’ this sudden verbal ‘attack’ on Stanhope, shows that Raleigh is finding it difficult to articulate the current situation due to his ignorance of war life.. This creates a whole new thing in their relationship, as Stanhope doesn’t know how to act towards the younger admiring officer without the guidance of Osborne we see this when Stanhope lashes out at Raleigh and tells him to ‘leave me alone’ and to ‘get out’. Sheriff does this to emphasise just how much the death of Osborne has affected Stanhope and his
The relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh is shown throughout the play. As the play progresses we the audience realise we have only just scraped the tip of a large and complex ice berg. In the play we are shown Stanhope and Raleigh have a complex relationship but it is only till Osborne talks to Raleigh when we find out that this is because they knew each other before. Sheriff displays the relationship to us through a young officers looking up to his senior captain, however we also see that Raleigh does not know how much war can change you, this causes tension between the two as Stanhope doesn’t want Raleigh to find out how he has changed. However in …show more content…
This complicates the whole situation as he doesn’t realise how much war has changed Stanhope. This is apparent when he tells Osborne the story of how if Stanhope caught the chaps ‘with a bottle of whiskey’ and ‘the roof blew off’. The reason why this quote is effective is because it contrasts with fact that Stanhope ‘drinks like a fish’. In the play Raleigh is used to contrast all of Stanhope’s ‘old’ point of view with his ‘current’ attitudes towards life. This allows the audience to understand how destructive war can be to a man mentally and physically, so much it can change a soldier’s personality. This makes the audience feel very tense in the beginning scenes as we anticipate Raleigh’s disappointment of his boy hood hero as he sees how much his perspective of life has …show more content…
We see this when Raleigh does not know what to call Stanhope and asks Osborne ‘so I suppose I should call him captain Stanhope’. ’ Sheriff does this to show Raleigh’s ignorance to war and to its unstated rules. The noun ‘captain’ has connotations of leadership and eminence, which unaware to Raleigh, Stanhope doesn’t demand. Also we see that Raleigh did not really have an idea of what war would be like; we know this from when he says to Osborne ‘I thought there would be an awful row up here’. This then again emphasises Raleigh’s ignorance and unknowingness about war life. We then see later on in the play how Raleigh doesn’t understand how to cope with the death of Osborne. We see this when Stanhope and other officers are dinking and laughing and smoking and he asks them ‘how can you drink with Osborne lying out there’ this sudden verbal ‘attack’ on Stanhope, shows that Raleigh is finding it difficult to articulate the current situation due to his ignorance of war life.. This creates a whole new thing in their relationship, as Stanhope doesn’t know how to act towards the younger admiring officer without the guidance of Osborne we see this when Stanhope lashes out at Raleigh and tells him to ‘leave me alone’ and to ‘get out’. Sheriff does this to emphasise just how much the death of Osborne has affected Stanhope and his