War and Peace

Character Study: Natasha Natasha is an essential character in War and Peace that spans the book from beginning to end. She is the daughter in the Rostov family, dear friend of Pierre, and love interest of Andrei. She starts out as a young 12 year old girl that develops into a woman over the course of the book. Natasha is expected to come into her true self in the midst of war and family crisis. This character study will analyze Natasha’s development in War and Peace by exploring her beginnings, intermediate stage, reversion stages, blind moments, downfall, and her eventual coming to self. In the beginning of the novel, Natasha is not allowed to attend the initial party because of her youth. Though she is young, she is easily offended by the condescension with which adults outside her family treat her. She is playful and demanding as a young girl in telling Boris of his future with her. Though she is young, Natasha is quite a present figure and her presence takes over when she enters the room. She has wisdom beyond her years and she uses it in her advice to Pierre and as she confides her truest feelings in Pierre. Besides Pierre, Natasha’s…

The Morality War In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, the boys who attend the Devon School constantly fight between doing what is right and what is wrong. Eric Burdon, an international singer-songwriter, describes this fight by saying “Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.” In A Separate Peace, war and internal turmoil are important underlying themes. Both main characters, Gene and…

World War II as a Symbol in A Separate Peace In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses World War II to symbolize denial of conflict and feelings, the reality of impending adulthood, and internal conflict in the minds of Gene and Finny. The war and the question of whether or not to enlist are omnipresent worries in the minds of the boys at the Devon School in New Hampshire. Although World War II is a major conflict in the novel, the various forms of strife it symbolizes are much more significant in…

The peace movement in the 60s and 70s revolutionised the way the population of America and England regarded politics as well as themselves as a society. From the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), spurred on by J. B Priestley, to Bob Dylan’s politically motivated songs, peace movements were formed to oppose political conservatism. Originally protesting solely on the nuclear arms race, the movement expanded to oppose America’s involvement in Vietnam in support of peace.…

paper, Reflections on Theology and Peace, “peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear." In my opinion, the Cold War accurately demonstrates this definition of peace. The Cold War was a period in history where peace was nonexistent because of the fear present in the minds of Americans. The Cold War, despite being a drawn-out period of tension and hostilities between primarily the Soviet Union and the United States, had an absence of actual military conflict. Although there…

world superpower or the world’s police force. That is to say that there have been only a few times the country has entered a conflict and lost. The large-scale wars such as The War of 1812, the U.S. Mexico War and both World Wars showed the military might of America. However there are a number of small wars that are less known and show the countries vulnerability. In his book The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot chronicles some of the lesser-known wars in American History, especially conflicts in…

Resolving Conflict: War Versus Peace Throughout history, mankind has struggled to maintain a balance between war and peace. Individuals are continuously attempting to maintain peace, yet they struggle with the prominent reality of conflict and war. Historically, English thinkers have surmised that conflict is an inert quality, yet some think otherwise. Additionally, many people question whether peace or war is more effective in dealing with conflict. More recently, the Modernists—especially…

This investigation will explore the question: to what extent did Nixon achieve the ‘Peace with Honor’ in the Vietnam war? The scope of my research will assess Nixon’s ‘Peace of Honor’ statement given to Vietnam in the early 1970s to see if Nixon kept his words or not to South Vietnam to have peace with North Vietnam after the Vietnam war. The method used to gather evidence of whether or not Nixon’s achieved the ‘Peace of Honor’ will be determined by the range of primary and secondary sources,…

Although the war in Europe seems to have no immediate effect on the students inside the sheltered Devon School in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, certain perspectives of the war reveal how its motive for peace dissembles the harsh reality of war and the adult world. First, after watching the video to encourage young enlisters to join the war, Leper is in awe at the beauty and elegance of the ski troops gliding down the mountain side. When Leper says, “I always thought the war would come for me…

The Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992) witnessed horrendous human rights violations that dismantled the physical and social fabric of Salvadoran society, leaving more than 75,000 dead and more than a one million as refugees. Fought between the authoritarian Salvadoran government and the guerilla Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), the twelve year bloody civil war came to an end with both parties signing the Chapultepec Peace Accords in 1992, with the assistance of international actors, most…