The play Journey’s End was written by R.C. Sherriff in 1928 and is concerned with the lives of soldiers in the British trenches of St Quentin, France towards the end of the First World War. The entire narrative of the play is mostly set in the officer’s dugout for four days in March 1918. In particular, the play focuses on the life of 6 or 7 soldiers in the dugout, and illustrates how they cope to survive throughout the war. Journey’s End is a play, which is one of the most realistic and vivid plays related to war because the story was based on R.C Sherriff’s experience when he was on the front line during the actual war. R.C Sherriff used to be a soldier before being a writer and he also joined the First World War. Journey’s End was first published as a drama and mostly people who joined the war or families, who has a relative of soldiers who participated in the war. Throughout the play, R.C …show more content…
After he heard the news, he said, “How awfully nice- if the brigadier’s pleased.” This phrase shows the feeling of Stanhope missing Osborne and how much he respects as an old veteran leader. Aslo, when Raleigh was dying at the end of the play, Stanhope’s attitude towards Raleigh shows Stanhope’s comradeship, another factor of a superior leader. When Raleigh comes back to the trench with injuries everywhere, Stanhope quickly helped Raleigh to lie down and said, “ Steady, old boy. Just lie there quietly for a bit.” This phrase shows that Stanhope really cares about him so rather hurrying up for first aid, he calmly made Raleigh to lie down and be comfortable as possible. Every time Stanhope said to Raleigh made Raleigh to feel as assured as possible. Even though Stanhope knew that Raleigh cannot use his legs anymore, he said, “It’s all right, old chap; it’s just the shock-numbed them.” His words made Raleigh to close his eyes much more