Dulce Et Decorum Est Vs Dunkirk

In war there are catastrophic events that surrounds the person in the conflict. This can have giant psychological impacts on your brain. The people that go into war do not end up as the same person that comes out of the war. In the book Catch 22, the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and the movie Dunkirk they display the horrors that people in war go through and the impacts that will forever change their brains. The psychological impacts of war can be very harsh, imprinting on your brain forever, and that in war it is much more horrific than the general public perceives it to be. After being shot at and people trying to kill soldiers constantly. Soldiers will start to believe that everyone’s goal was to kill them and no matter what side they are on think that they are hated. "An unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were conspiring to kill him." (pg. 20 Heller, Joseph) he starts to believe that everyone is trying to kill him or

The problem is is that there is no real way to completely cope with the horror seen.”If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in” (Owen, Wilfred) even in their dreams they can not escape from what they see making it so hard to cope. When you dream that is a little time for your brain to finally relax it’s self from the stress and danger that it has experienced all day. Without being relaxed that is like being tortured for twenty-four hours a day and in the end that has a major effect on your brain. In Dunkirk in the scene where they are finally feel a little safety and can start to relax from the horrors happening on the beach all of the sudden they are being sunk. They can’t even take a second to try to calm themselves down leaving horrible psychological