ipl-logo

Hell On Earth Dbq

465 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Grade 8 essay on world war 1 and trench warfare

It is very appropriate to describe the conditions on the Western Front in WW1 as 'Hell on earth'. The soliders were 'trapped' in a nightmarish landscape of trench warfare, freezing temperatures with mud and water all around and death waiting for them from either the enemy or the living conditions in the trenches. Many of the sources focous on the suffering of the men in the trenches, due to the physical hardship of the weather and the actual, living conditions of the trenches. The conditions were really shocking, as we see in Sources 1-11. It was not just the combat, it was the life on the battle field which is the subject of these sources. From studying the sources, it appears as though this would be the worst place to be- it truly was a living hell. For the …show more content…

The terrible living conditions in the trences are highlighed in Sources 6 & 7. We see very cramped conditions, with little room to sleep, earth all around the men as they wait to die. Again we realise this was a living hell for these young men. Frank Hurley's diary (Source 8) is an emotional response to the loneliness and horror of war, he uses emotive language, 'smashed and splintered' and 'gloom and death' to express the hardship of the men. The repetition of 'lonely' and 'loneliness' make us realise how isolated these men were in this battle. The inhumane conditions of the trenches which caused as many deths as the battes is discussed in Source 9. The ANZAC's had only two bankets to keep warm, their eyelids were often 'frozen shut' and thir feet 'swelled to three times their size' by standing in water. Trench feet was a result of long periods of time standing in water, this is shown in Source 10 when the reader is confronted with a very shocking visual image. Major Claridge through his personal reflection and using the technique of personification and repetition. He clearly explaines death as if it were a person waitig to take

Show More
Related
236 Words | 1 Pages

You can also see a dead horse on the floor which shows how horrible the conditions are. Also there’s not a lot of soldiers, which might of been because they became ill or possibly died. In the next piece of evidence you can see a diary

Read More
268 Words | 2 Pages

Also because the soldiers worked non stop they didn 't have time to harvest or grow anything so they died of starvation and loneliness, this means that the soldiers were forced to work against their will and were lonely

Read More
1067 Words | 5 Pages

Throughout the first world war, both Canadian and German troops were challenged with a variety of hardships, the most prominent being the poor living conditions of the trenches. When reading the books, Generals Die In Bed and All Quiet on the Western Front, we can see the lack of sleep, lice in clothing, and subpar equipment that the German and Canadian troops were required to deal with. The quality of life in the trenches over the four years of war exhibits the historical concept of continuity. Hence, both the German and Canadian troops were confronted with poor living conditions due to the lice, absence of sleep, and inadequate equipment.

Read More
531 Words | 3 Pages

As the Revolutionary War went on, the difficulties faced by colonists army was brutal, if not fatal. Through Valley Forge, Washington's great speech and John Andrews letter to his brother, Our nation's army prevailed with all the hardships this war brought us. Whether it was the frostbitten feet of soldiers, the questionable work load to reward ratio , or the feeling of not being able to walk another step, we overcome it. In John Brooks’s Writing he describes the life of an american soldier during the Revolutionary War.

Read More
844 Words | 4 Pages

This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him. This chapter also contain a lot of psychological lens. From the way Tim O’Brien felt when he was shot and separated from his unit to a new unit to when he wanted revenge on Bobby Jorgenson for almost “killing” him.

Read More
869 Words | 4 Pages

War is a transformative event due to the people at first believing war is exciting opportunity that they should not miss out but later it seemed to be frightening and gloomy which changed them emotionally as well they may get injured and transform the physically. As said by Stefan Zweig in The World of Yesterday which is about Austrians excitement of going into WWI, “the young people were honestly afraid that they might miss this most wonderful and exciting experience of their lives; that is why they shouted and sang in the trains that carried them to the slaughter”(Document H). At first it shows how excited everyone was but then they experience war which causes them to realise that war is not a great time but it is a horrific event that will

Read More
989 Words | 4 Pages

If you lived in a trench in the Western front, there was general pattern followed for trench routine was for the person and his section or group to spend 4 days in the front line, then 4 days in close reserve and finally 4 at rest. Although this varied a lot and that depended on the conditions, the weather and the strategies planned in the minds of the leaders or generals. The conditions of trenches were unpleasant, disgusting, filthy and dirty. There was a lot of muddy water from the rain as there is no proper drainage for the rainwater.

Read More
841 Words | 4 Pages

Similarly, lice and glum are used to describe the conditions of the trenches/front in "All Quiet on the Western Front". Remarque shows the trenches as hell for the soldiers, especially Paul and his comrades. The extent is more severe in "Suicide in the Trenches", because the soldier boy ends up committing suicide, hence the title. However,

Read More
747 Words | 3 Pages

O’Brien’s intended audience was young people who were not educated about the war and he discussed the themes shame/guilt and mortality/death. The chapter “The Things They Carried” gives an introduction about the men in the group, it also shows shame/guilt. The chapter talks about the equipment each soldier carried and how it affected them. During this chapter it focuses primarily on LT.

Read More
469 Words | 2 Pages

The life of a World War 1 prisoner was not that great because they had to stay in a little tiny place with a bunch of people in that one area. One of the prisoner said when he first became a prisoner they had stayed in a cell and he had a really bad head injury whenever he got there so one of the guards helped him by trying to bandage him up and give some food. The place that they slept was really bad because they slept on wood that was so old that it had bugs and things crawling out of the wood and the bugs would get all over there bodies while they were trying to sleep. Sometimes the prisoners would not even sleep inside a building they would sleep outside in the cold and they would also be very hungry because all they could think about was

Read More
1702 Words | 7 Pages

From one account of a soldier at Gallipoli, he stated “A few bivvies, excavated in the walls of trenches, but most men only had the floor of the trench upon which to lie” - Colonel Herbert Collett, 28th Battalion. In the movie, it was seen that there were only “a few bivvies” to sit and lie in while there were many soldiers sitting on the dry ground, this is a very accurate recreation of the firsthand accounts and pictures taken at Gallipoli. The trenches were not a pleasant place as they were unhygienic, and disease-ridden because of the constant death in and around the trenches, Weir falsely recreates the trenches with dead bodies buried in the walls and little-seen disease except the flies in the soldier’s food. Another account from 2nd of December describes the trenches as not being under “continuous bomb fighting and bombarding all the time” instead “the chief occupation is the digging of mile upon mile of endless trench” -Dispatch, Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Weir’s Gallipoli reconstructs life in the trenches as standing around for ages and filling time with activities like smoking and small gambling or betting, this was the case but many soldiers had to be constantly digging more lines of trenches which were not shown in the movie.

Read More
625 Words | 3 Pages

These quotes showed the kind of weather that the soldiers in the trenches had to go through. Main

Read More
988 Words | 4 Pages

Untimely Death From the trench's harsh environment, attacked by enemies or not, soldiers having duties in trenches can die in a sudden. The can die due to dangerous diseases, minimum hygienic services, food contaminations by rats and other small insects, starvation and even psychological problems such as shell shocked (A disease where soldier has traumatic problems after fighting in the war). Since trenches are located in "No Man's Land", unexpected attacks may occurred where sometimes soldiers in the trenches are not yet prepared and died in the raid. Answer to the Research

Read More
1615 Words | 7 Pages

That place is called Metnal, the place of Xibalba. This is considered hell or the underworld on which all the bad people who are brought here. In the article, Manuel Aguilar states that “they would be tormented by

Read More
430 Words | 2 Pages

The coldness caused trench foot to run fungal infections which bred in the gunge. The crammed full pools of feces and urine caused the whole place to reek of a sent that stained your sense of smell. Rats fed on anything, up and including dead or alive bodies, eating men 's food and personal belongings. But worst of all, they sometimes grew to the size of a cat feasting off of the plentiful corpses that lay around. The constant sound of shooting guns and cannon fire would ring in your ear, as you can hear excruciating shouting of wounded and hurt soldiers or the undaunted attackers sometimes cheering or often laughing diverged into a background haze.

Read More

More about Hell On Earth Dbq

Related Topics

Open Document