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The Horror of War

Baumer tries to release his feelings in kind sympathetic ways. Baumer is caught in a shell hole with a Frenchmen, Baumer acknowledged that he had no argument with this man and said: "Why don't they keep reminding us that you are all miserable wretches just like us, that your mothers worry themselves just as much as ours and that were just as scared of death ?" The men had been turned into machines they no longer had human instincts all they could think about was killing the enemy. "We are Automata, no longer do we think like human beings." The horror of war takes over men. War becomes their lives. "I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear and fatuous superficiality cast over on abyss of sorrow What shall become of us?" The men became disillusioned they had been sent to war by people who they had looked up to. They believed that they knew what was right but they soon realised that they had been let down when it came time for action. .
             Wilfred Owen describes physical hardship as part of the horror that affected all men. "Bent double, like beggars under sacks." The exhaustion of fighting battle after battle took its toll on men very quickly. The pain of limping on with no boots. Owen describes men watching their friends die; it makes them angry and full of hatred. The men were told they were doing the right thing dying for their country. But Owen describes"The old lie: Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori." It is sweet and fitting to die for your fatherland. How could it ever be sweet and fitting to die in a gas chamber? In Full Metal Jacket the horror of war is portrayed right from the start in training camp. Sgt Hartman is a prime example of how the horror of war affects people. He has no feelings at all he is like a machine. The words and abuse that come out of his mouth changes men into cold hearted killers like him. Private Pile is singled out by Sgt Hartman and goes into a state of hatred and ends up killing himself and Sgt Hartman.


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