In this Essay I will be Comparing Dulce et Decorum Est And Anthem for Doomed Youth by Willfred Owen The Soldier By Rupert Brooke and Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare showing how each one presents the issues of war In the two poems Dulce et Decorum est and Anthem for Doomed Youth both written by Wilfred Owen the authors main purpose was to expose the true horrors of the war and to challenge the romanticized view of war that the poet Rupert Brooke had Owen used familiar imagery techniques
Its interesting to think about the things people might carry with them if they were forced to go to war Would you sacrifice a little extra weight to bring a good luck charm or an extra gun and ammunition to provide more safety In Tim OBriens The Things They Carried much of the story is spent describing the certain weapons materials and emotional burdens the men in Viet Nam carried Even though some soldiers such as Mitchell Sanders carry extremely heavy objects like the PRC 25 radio a killer twe
Works of literature are often examined thematically through characters settings and events This method of analysis enables the reader to obtain intimacy with novels or plays thus extracting their very essence The themes of survival and religion manifest themselves in Life of Pi by Yann Martel The first theme is survival Throughout the novel Piscine Molitor Patel who is referred to as Pi goes through many trials and extremities that demonstrate to the reader the shaping of his character hand in