Journey's End- Lit Crit Flashcards
1
Q
Gardner
A
Raleigh and Stanhope
‘There’s only three years between them but a lifetime of experience separates the pair’.
2
Q
What does Gardner say about every character?
A
They’re cliched characters in the war.
3
Q
Swaffer
A
‘It carried a lesson- one that is nobly told’
4
Q
Veteran in Daily Chronicle
A
Contemporary
‘Not merely my emotions but my memories were being stirred’.
5
Q
Punch
A
‘War-tortured Stanhope’.
6
Q
Historian- Chris Baker
A
Trench conditions:
‘Conditions of severe health risk (and that is not counting the military risks)’.
7
Q
Roper
A
‘War was felt as a test of manhood’
8
Q
Aldington’s novel
A
1929
‘Death of a Hero’
Satirical descriptions of the ideology of manhood and hero-worship.
