In Flanders Fields

Politics, wars, and discoveries, usually hidden events were exploited. The civil war was one of the most impacted events in history affected by photography. Matthew Brady is known for his portraits of Civil War generals and for his images of vast fields littered with the corpses in the aftermath of battle. This was the first time that the destruction of war was captured on film, and would change the way humanity viewed war forever (Urtron, 2013). Matthew Brady was known as the man who created…

Aubrey Rattray-Wood (1894-1969) enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) in February 1916, at age 21. , He spent more than three years overseas with the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (ATC), seeing active service in Belgium and France at Hill 63 and Hill 60. Although his health was greatly affected, Aubrey survived and thrived post-war, always maintaining that his army years were a highlight of his life. Why Aubrey chose the Queensland city of Rockhampton to enlist, rather than his…

Diplomacy Over Force A common ideal taught to children is to use words over violence to dissolve conflicts. If someone makes someone else upset, resolving disagreement through diplomacy and not force is almost common sense to most people. In most countries, using force is an action that is looked down upon, if not prohibited. Yet, responsible men who are powerful enough to lead countries often seem to start wars to resolve national disputes. Initially known as the Great War, World War I is one…

soldiers in All Quiet on the Western Front is clear when he simply states “we are weary to death”. Another illustration of a World War I soldier’s life is a quote from John McCrae, a surgeon and the author of the poem In Flanders Fields, as describes the conditions of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres, he writes as follows: The general impression in my mind is of a nightmare. We have been in the most bitter of fights. For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have…

women at home feel the loss of their one man. Sassoon’s works abound with similar disconnects between soldiers and larger society along the lines of class, age, and ideology, but they also show how these very disconnects united the fighting men in Flanders (“War bleeds us white”). Sassoon’s works therefore explicitly demonstrate my idea of fictive kinship as the salve to the isolation they also depict—these men are isolated from home together, they feel the loss of their fallen comrades as a…

Life in the European trenches and its effects on the diggers Life in the European trenches and trench warfare is strongly associated with World War 1, when it was employed on the Western Front from September 1914 until the last weeks of the war. By the end of October 1914 the whole front in Belgium and France had solidified into lines of trenches. Trench warfare occurred when a revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility, resulting in a grueling form of warfare in…

a plague, and ambitions for a place in society to which one has no legitimate claim” (Sill 10). Secondly, narrators were repeatedly trapped within the snares caused by their own passions. Some of these narrators, such as Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, managed to find a cure even though…

The Squire: Beyond The Appearance “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” (Aristotle) Although The Canterbury Tales is not the distinct type of art that Aristotle was referring to, his words still apply to the story, particularly when it comes to the Squire. (Chaucer, 199) Chaucer describes the Squire as “embroidered like a meadow bright, and full of freshest flowers, red and white” also pointing out that his hair had “locks as curly…

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future-John F. Kennedy. The Black Death was a tragic event that took place in Europe during the 14th century. The disease left a lasting impact on Europe, resulting in a new worldview. The Black Death, one of the greatest catastrophes in history, resulted in a world of fear. What started as a few infected sailors docking in Italy, resulted in the death of half of Europe's population. The disease…

English and the French. But the more specific reasons were the ambition of French monarchy to expand their land, which contradicts England’s ambition to keep French land under their control because it used to belong to their king, and the province of Flanders (now known as Belgium) wanting to secede from France. Though France was a lot stronger at the start of the war, King Edward III…