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Journey’s End

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• Full Title: Journey’s End
• When Published: Journey’s End was first produced on December 9th, 1928
• Literary Period: Modernism
• Genre: Drama, Realism
• Setting: A military dugout in the British trenches of St. Quentin, France during World War I.
• Climax: After days of mounting tension and anticipation, the Germans finally stage a massive attack on the British trenches, seriously overwhelming Stanhope’s infantry and fatally wounding Raleigh.
• Antagonist: The Germans are the most obvious antagonists in Journey’s End , but they hardly ever actually appear in the play. Because of this, the threat they pose—the sense of doom that hovers over the British dugout—becomes the true antagonistic force.

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Rowing Club. R.C. Sherriff composed and staged his first play in order to raise money for Kingston Rowing Club so that the organization could purchase a new boat.

The Big Screen. Since it first premiered, Journey’s End has been staged many, many times. In 2018, though, it was adapted as a feature film for the first time.

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How does sherriff create tension in the duologue between osborne and stanhope at the end of act 1, what are trotter's quotes showing his emotions, how sherriff presents the true horrors of was through the character of raleigh, how is the confrontation over the letter ironic, what is the role and significance of stanhope in the play journey's end, q. how does sheriff make the death of osborne seem such a terrible loss support your answer with details from the text., journey's end, how is instability presented in this play, how does r.c. sheriff make a lot of act 1 feel so amusing, and what does this convey about the mentality of the men, cuál era el conocimiento previo de raleigh sobre stanhope, how is stanhope presented at the dinner (up to where he tells hibbert to ‘clear out of here’), how is raleigh presented in the stage directions, what does stanhope say the only thing a decent man can do, would mason be the only innocent character, what is the evidence of raliegh being immature.

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