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This photo of a propaganda poster for world war 1 plays into the image that society built of soldier being fit men and war as some sort of fun club that the men go away to. By calling out to the public so specifically and making the audience feel as though they are the one important thing that society needs to win the war, gives the viewer a false sense of importance.

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Although this film has no relation with our readings, considering it takes place in WW2, I thought it was an extremely interesting example of how glorified war is in making important events into a fun adventurous trip rather than the serious situation that it is. This relates back to the course in what we've discussed with 'a fun club for the boys' and this false image built to bring in more soldiers. Much of the writing we've read works to shed light on the horrible truth that these men are dying or faced with worse than death on the front lines. Taking this course has made me see these types of situations for what they are rather than just writing them off as another piece of the war. White Christmas has been my favorite holiday movie for many years, and seeing this clip now I really have a new perspective on what it means.

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White Christmas   I wish I was back in the army

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In this example of war advertising women as well as men are targeted. by featuring a woman wishing to be a man to join the navy, the creators made the ad a reflection of the sexism of the times. While men went off to war women stayed home and handled everything they left behind, but that's not the glorious thing to do because it's a woman's job. Instead everyone should want to go to the front line and face the battle instead of doing a woman's work. By using this sexism the poster makes any man not in battle a pansy, overly-feminine individual that should be behaving as gender roles dictate.

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These lines from McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" use the imagery of the poppy, that we've seen before in class with other poems. McCrae uses the symbols of the poppies in such a way between the graves of the fallen as a sign of remembrance so that these soldiers and lost individuals are not forgotten. The poppy was soon adopted as a symbol of memorial for the slain.

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The Return of the Soldier. In this film adaptation of West's novel we see a situation where Chris confronts Kitty for information about their time together. What Kitty reveals is a very hum-drum high society life that many people envied but to the old Chris it seems very boring and not at all the life he would have chosen for himself in this current mind set. Through his coping mechanism he loses the frivolity of high society and returns to a pleasant youth that was unconcerned with marriage, and playing bridge.

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Available Through www.umbrellaent.com.au. Returning from service, First World War veteran Chris Baldry (Oscar® nominee, Alan Bates, The Rose) is half the man he once was, traumatised and stripped of his memory, he doesn't even recognize his own wife, the respected society queen Kitty (Oscar® winner Julie Christie, Darling).

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In the trailer for the film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway we again see how another author has made 2 identities for a main character. There is Clarissa, more the young girl with the decision of which suitor to be with (the one she cares for, and the one that makes her safe), and Mrs. Dalloway, the woman who is married to Mr. Dalloway and is only a surface character that has lost her identity to her husband now throwing a party concerned with high-society. Similar to Chris' situation in The Return of the Soldier, where he is in love with Margaret but has a safe existence with Kitty.

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Heaney's poetry differentiates itself from the others of it's time by focusing on who the narrator's father is, who he is and what is expected of him, "Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun./....But I’ve no spade to follow men like them./Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests./I’ll dig with it," (Heaney). Rather than playing directly into the war, besides the initial mention of a gun Heaney shows how expectations are placed upon men in this time period. That you did and behaved as you were expected to, you followed along and gave no complaints; much as men had to do when going to war.

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Auden's poem The Unknown Citizen, comes across initially as very catchy, more of a light read, yet on further focus readers can see that he means the poem to touch on the way in which government and people in general gloss over the death of soldiers. They make an unidentified dead body into a whole person, that is suddenly a hero, popular and hard-worker. When in reality no one knows who he really was--he could have been a drunkard, or a womanizer--but because he died for his country he is suddenly an idolized figure of the type of person others should strive to imitate.

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Using this map in consideration with Friel's Translations, when the English were coming to remap the Irish countryside as well as drastically alter Irish identity, a huge loss of self was sweeping the country because these citizens were losing their national identity to the English. This example of an old Irish map--from before English influence--like the one seen in Translations serves as a reminder to how much war and the results of war cause a Nation, and the citizens in that nation to be forced into change. War has a long lasting effect that some people have never recovered from.

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This poem by Larkin goes though a metamorphosis in the narrator's monologue. From a satirical view to a serious consternation on his view of the church, the narrator's chain of thought follows much the same path regarding the church as other characters throughout the semester viewed the war. Initially the thing to do just because everyone else does it, it becomes a serious moral thing to do for an individual's sake of moral expression. Larkin's poem mirrors the the situation over seas while focusing on another topic just as controversial.

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McEwan's Atonement touches on many important topics to do with war, family, and truth. Due to the lie that one jealous, immature little girl tells many people's lives are heavily affected. One character faces years in prison for crimes he did not commit, and the woman he loves faces the judgement of her family for keeping a relationship with him. These characters rely on an escape in literature and writing to cope with realities surrounding them through war and strife. Similar to Chris' mind coping with the war, Cecelia and Robbie use their letters to cope with the trauma caused by her younger sister.

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This word cloud perfectly sums up our course, with what we've been reading and the extra materials we've been presented with. The largest words I focused on in this were: War, Women, History, Culture, British, and Literature. All being the biggest topics that our entire semester has zeroed in on.