Journeys End by RC Sheriff :: English Literature

tours EndR.C Sheriff wrote Journeys hold back in 1928. The looseness was written 10 yearsafter the fight had finished to let peoples emotions feelings andemotions near the war settle down.The play is set near the end of the war, in 1918, along the westernfront in France. Sheriff set the all told play in one setting so it iseasier to stage, it personalizes it, and it creates a sense ofentrapment.The whole play is set in the trenches, which are genuinely confined, dampand cold. They were well-nigh credibly inhabited by rats and the dugouts mostlikely smelled.The final diorama is set in the dugout, at dawn just before a Germanattack is expected. At he beginning of the prognosis there is no sound except the distant mutter of the guns. But later(prenominal)on in the sceneThere comes the weakly whistle and crease 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 uses comedy in the play to lighten the mood and to add computer backup from the depression of war. The party scene was a scene whereeveryone forgot about the war and started to lighten up.At the beginning of this scene the audience most likely expects themood to be unsettled and things to be tense mingled with the characters,this is because of the arguments that happened between the charactersthe night before.Towards dawn, the candles are no longer burning.Mason is framed in the doorway against the very lights.There comes the rasp of a striking match-a comminuted flame- and a candlegleams.Mason the wakes Stanhope up. This depicting the way he is break of serve thetension from the previous nights argument and how he is lighteningthe mood, be it with a hot cup of tea or with his kid-glove handling ofHibbert later on.In Journeys End the illume is very important because it outlineswhat kind of mood different parts of the scene are. For example, atthe start of Act 3 Scene 3, it is half one-time(prenominal) five on the morning theattack is expected. The lighting would be very dark, creating adepressing atmosphere. Near the end of the scene, as Raleigh is dying,The faint rosy glow of the dawn is deepening to an angry red.At this maneuver the lights would slowly turn red, representing death,blood and pain.The audience think Hibbert is a coward, in general because he tried to ohome, complaining of neuralgia, when he was fine at the party, and hetakes his time over everything he does.