Deus Caritas Est

Forbidden Zones: The Great War Production Essay On ENTER DATE, I went to see Forbidden Zones: The Great War written and directed by Lesley Ferris. This play was performed by the Ohio State Theatre at Ohio State’s Drake Performance Center in the Roy Bowen Theatre. This play, which focuses on short scenes that show the horrors of World War One, used multiple characters over different storylines to show how war can affect the world. Because I am a fan of war stories, I was expecting this to be a…

Dulce et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are poems which respond to the first World War. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon use a variety of similar techniques in their poems to represent war in a negative light. Both poems highlight the physical and psychological horrors of war. Owen uses a simile by likening the soldiers to 'old beggars' as the impact of war on their bodies has left them 'stumbling' and ' coughing'. The fact they are 'stumbling' suggests they are injured as a result…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…

I picked Edvard Munch's work of art from the book Gardener's Art Through The Ages, volume 2 by Fred S. Kleiner. Edvard Munch's piece titled The Screaming (Kleiner, 711) which speak to the anguish of a man. This piece was made in 1893 as a portrayal of what the painter lived before in his life. The piece's available area is "National Gallery Oslo" (Kleiner, 711). This piece is "Tempera and pastels on cardboard by 2' 11.25'' X 2' 5''" (Kleiner, 711). The work is a brilliant portrayal of the…

Avant-garde played a crucial role in the process of developing the area of the arts. Moreover, the response towards atrocities in the World War I in this mainstream was the following. Importantly that a lot of the artists served as soldiers in this war and they tried to point out harmful circumstances of the battles. For example, the Mexican painter Rivera in his masterpiece known as “Man at the Crossroads with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future” (1931) portrayed the…

Poems from the First World War have often been analysed over the last 100 years. From these studies, it can be said that the poetry of the Great War differs from earlier poetry since in the war no specific rules for writing were given (c.f. Puissant 6). But also, poems from the First World War itself offer enormous contrasts (c.f. Longley 58). One corollary of the premise that poetry changed in the course of the war from an expression of martial aspiration and the glory of sacrifice to one of…

music and, poetry. However, not all people viewed the conflict in same way. This resulted in a variety of themes and messages. For example, two poems written during the war, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen portray incredibly opposed themes about war and conflict. These different perspectives can be seen in the diction and structure of the two poems. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is written in short, simple stanzas that emphasize…

goes back to when Owen discussed the soldier dying from the gas attack therefore the phrase “fourth-corrupted lungs”. This is in relation to the gas that caused his lungs to fill with blood which ultimately cost him his life. The word “gargling” is an onomatopoeia used to show the pain and despair the solider was in before he died. Similes are used in the next line to convey just how evil and un necessary war is. The first one is “Obscene as cancer”, here he is comparing war to cancer and…

Owen uses tone to convey the brutality and bitterness of the many, young deaths as a result of the First World War. One example of his pessimistic attitude is evident in the title itself - ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. The key words ‘doomed youth’ clearly capture that there was no hope for the fate of his generation, whose destiny, which awaited them, was just to die young. The oxymoronic title signifies that the war was so barbaric, death was an inevitable outcome of it. Another example of Owen’s…

Built in 1880, it became Rodin's first creation to be publicly shown under his name. Its height stands at 178 centimeters, or around 70 inches, and is made entirely out of bronze metal. The art movement Rodin drew inspiration from when creating this life-size sculpture was impressionism. Impressionism is an art form that results in "short, broken brushstrokes that barely convey forms, pure unblended colors, and an emphasis on the effects of light" (Samu, 2004) Impressionists…