Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Act three opens with Osborne asking Stanhope to send all of his materials to his wife. The two reminisce about life in England. Raleigh survives the mission, but Osborne does not. The raid successfully captures a German. When the higher commands ask Stanhope how the raid went, it’s clear that they don’t care if men died but if they captured a German who they can milk for information. A radio adaptation by Peter Watts was produced for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre in November 1970, featuring Martin Jarvis as Captain Stanhope. It is decided that Osborne and Raleigh will be the officers to go on the raid, despite the fact that Raleigh has only recently entered the war. a b c d e f g h i Sherriff, Robert Cedric (1968). No Leading Lady: An Autobiography. London: Victor Gollancz. pp.39, 9, 43–44, 45, 52, 49, 70–76, 129, 130, 181. ISBN 978-0-575-00155-8. I loved the exploration of the disconnect between the idyllic boarding-school days before the war (talk of rugby, holidays, and schoolboy idols) and the grim reality the characters face. There’s a kind of guilt and delicate avoidance of the topic, because things will never be the same again. It reminded me of Hartley’s opening line from The Go-Between: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

The scenes between the men were extremely subtle and really drove home the complete and utter futility of it all. And I think it’s this subtlety that made the final scene all the more haunting. I don't know how much I'm going to write about this book, as it was pretty short, and I don't want to talk about all the things that happened, as there weren't that much. But I'm still going to write about some of it, and try to share why I liked this book, and why I didn't love it. One thing I do love, though, is the pretty cover. Yay. Every now and then I want to read a play; as for this one, I don't know how I 'found it.' It was recently made into a movie, but I hadn't watched it, or known of its existence. I might have discovered it here on Goodreads... The play is set three days before the Spring Offensive ('Operation Michael') where the Germans advanced from the Hindenburg line, on the Western Front, with the aims to break Allied lines and gain as much land as possible. It follows a company of men, who all know that an offensive is imminent, and how they deal with the knowledge that they could possibly die soon. It's an anti-war play, and you feel it's message by the end, because you feel that the war was pointless/useless.Purkis, Charlotte (2016). "The mediation of constructions of pacifism in Journey's End and The Searcher, two contrasting dramatic memorials from the late 1920s". Journalism Studies. 17 (4): 502–16. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1135753. i would just like to know what happens afterwards. does Stanhope quit drinking and go home? do they all just die? I have seen Journey's End twice at the theatre. I have also seen the excellent 2017 film. However, this is the first time I have read the play. All of the action takes place in a British officers dugout during the final year of the First World War. Captain Stanhope, respected and revered by his men, manages to function by drinking copious amounts of whisky to numb the horrors of the trenches. Osbourne, his second in command, finds solace in literature and reads from "Alice in Wonderland", as both a release from reality and a way to understand the absurdity of what is happening. Into the mix comes Raleigh, a young second lieutenant, fresh from home, who pulls strings to get in Stanhope's company, because he hero-worshiped him as the rugger team captain from school days and also because Stanhope is involved with his sister. Tensions arise because of Raleigh's naivety and hero-worship, and Stanhope's fears that he is not worthy of such praise and his worry that news of his drinking and despair might reach the ears of his intended. Stanhope also worries that young Raleigh's eagerness to join him has doomed him with the rest of them. Trotter, Stanhope, and Hibbert drink and talk about women. They all appear to be enjoying themselves until Hibbert is annoyed when Stanhope tells him to go to bed, and he tells Stanhope to go to bed instead, then Stanhope suddenly becomes angry and begins to shout at Hibbert, and tells him to clear off and get out.

Osborne puts a tired and somewhat drunk Stanhope to bed. Stanhope, as well as the other officers, refers to Osborne as "Uncle".

Battles and wars are all about facing the enemy and fighting with all your might and courage. However, sometimes it also means running at full speed to escape death like the following extract shows: The play was adapted for television in 1988, starring Jeremy Northam as Stanhope, Edward Petherbridge as Osborne, and Timothy Spall as Trotter. [20] It held close to the original script although there were changes, the most obvious being the depiction on camera of the raid, which happens off-stage in the theatre production. In 1930, James Whale directed an eponymous film based on the play, starring Colin Clive, David Manners and Ian Maclaren. [18] The characters are pretty good too, but they’re not amazing. I appreciate the addition of a little middle grade ship, but you don’t get a lot from that either. They blush at each other some and then Nolie leaves at the end of the summer. The whole book basically just feels like it could have been more, but it’s not.