Ww1 Attitudes

The changing attitudes to the war, was due to numerous reasoning’s. When war first began in 1914, the soldiers and commanders thought that it would only be a 3 month war and be over by Christmas. However, due to circumstances, the war last much longer than expected, in fact extending until 1918. The four year war, initially was thought to be glamorous; go into the war front, battle the enemy, defeat the opponents and shortly later come back home where individuals would be crowned as “heroes” and the nation would be seen as all “mighty” and “powerful”. Many nations equipped themselves with horses and other baggage expecting the war to be non-artillery. Due to this fact, many countries, quickly had shortage of supplies and the advanced technology …show more content…
Soldiers began to start missing home and wishing the war was over, however, any soldiers that wanted to challenge and escape war, would be shot to death or much worse, be put on the front; ultimately resulting in death. Commanders and leaders did not have a sold plan for the war and often would make calls that resulted in high casualties. One of the representatives of Haig exclaimed “I cannot believe we sent men to fight in these conditions”, the lack of knowledge of what the conditions were on the war front and trenches, supplies great knowledge that civilians did not know the actual impact of war either;, the commanders were too, oblivious of the lack of human rights that were actually accounted for during the war. Suicide in the Trench supplies the audience with the great shift in perspective of the war front. “I once knew a simple soldier boy who grinned at life in empty