Journeys End by RC Sheriff :: English Literature

Journeys EndR.C Sheriff wrote Journeys hold back in 1928. The play was written 10 yearsafter the struggle had finished to let peoples emotions feelings andemotions about the war influence down.The play is portion near the rarity of the war, in 1918, along the western sandwichfront in France. Sheriff set the whole play in unity setting so it iseasier to stage, it personalizes it, and it creates a sense ofentrapment.The whole play is set in the trenches, which atomic number 18 truly confined, dampand cold. They were most likely live by rats and the dugouts mostlikely smelled.The final scene is set in the dugout, at dawn just before a German combat is expected. At he beginning of the sceneThere is no respectable except the distant mutter of the guns. But afterwardon in the sceneThere comes the faint whistle and thud of falling shells. Towardsthe end pf the scene the noise from the shells being droppedintensifies and continues like this until the end of the play.R.C Sheriff us es comedy in the play to lighten the mood and to addrelief from the depression of war. The troupe scene was a scene whereeveryone forgot about the war and drawed to lighten up.At the beginning of this scene the audience most likely expects themood to be unsettled and things to be tense between the characters,this is because of the arguments that happened between the charactersthe night before.Towards dawn, the standard candles are no longer burning.Mason is framed in the doorway against the very lights.There comes the rasp of a striking match-a tiny flame- and a candlegleams.Mason the wakes Stanhope up. This depicting the way he is breaking thetension from the former nights argument and how he is lighteningthe mood, be it with a hot cup of tea or with his tactful handling ofHibbert later on.In Journeys End the lighting is very primary(prenominal) because it outlineswhat kind of mood different parts of the scene are. For example, atthe start of Act 3 Scene 3, it is half past fiv e on the morning theattack is expected. The lighting would be very dark, creating a dismay atmosphere. Near the end of the scene, as Raleigh is dying,The faint rosy light of the dawn is deepening to an angry red.At this point the lights would slowly develop red, representing death,blood and pain.The audience think Hibbert is a coward, mainly because he seek to ohome, complaining of neuralgia, when he was fine at the party, and hetakes his snip over everything he does.