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Why do you think this play is a mixture of amusing and serious elements?

Why do you think this play is a mixture of amusing and serious elements? . More Serious. Deals with serious issues at the end of the scene: ‘ She doesn’t know that if I went up those steps without being doped with whiskey, I’d be mad with fright. ’ – pg 17.

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Why do you think this play is a mixture of amusing and serious elements?

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  1. Why do you think this play is a mixture of amusing and serious elements?

  2. More Serious

  3. Deals with serious issues at the end of the scene: ‘She doesn’t know that if I went up those steps without being doped with whiskey, I’d be mad with fright.’ – pg 17

  4. There are issues with the with the fighting in the war, ‘The simply blew us to bits yesterday… ‘ ‘Do much damage? ‘ ‘Awful.’

  5. They don’t know what they are eating: ‘Sort of cutlet?’ ‘Sir; that one's a cutlet.’ – pg 21. Although this part is supposed to be funny, it had serious issues in it; for all they know they could be eating something like rat.

  6. ‘We must have pepper.’ – pg 20. Pepper isn’t really essential to have with food, but because the food is so bad, they need to find ways of making it taste better.

  7. War life is so bad that people are trying to fake illness in order to go home: ‘I’m afraid the pain rather takes my appetite away.’ ‘Pure bloody funk, that’s all. He could eat if he wanted too; he’s starving himself on purpose.’ – pg 25.

  8. The seriousness of people at home not knowing what was going on in the war. ‘Censorship! I censor his letters – cross out all he says about me… she goes on thinking I’m a fine fellow forever.’

  9. Stanhope and Hibbert show seriousness in the play by talking about the trenches: ‘I can’t bear to go up into those awful trenches again’ –pg 57. This shows how trench life is so awful, that even the officers are scared of being in them.

  10. When Raleigh and Stanhope are talking about the reality of death in warfare, and how it effects them: “The one man I could trust – me best friend – the one man I could talk to about everything…” pg 91

  11. Before the attack Stanhope and the Colonel are talking about the attack: “It’s rotten to send a fellow who’s only just arrived.” The colonel’s don’t really care so much about if their officer’s die or not, because they are even sending people who have no experience in the war, so don’t know what they are in for.

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