Why Is War Important Dbq

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

In the Poem Dulce Et Decorum Est It is about the horrors of war and how no one ever realises it if they war not in the army. As Wilfred Owen Said “Dim, Through the misty panes and thick green light/ As under a green sea, I saw him drowning/ In all my dreams, Before my helpless sight,/ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”(Document C). The soldier that tells the story states of his horrors of war and how a man died in a gas attack and he was not able to save him, “under the green sea, I saw him drowning” the green sea was the chlorine gas that was dropped. It is called green gas due to it not actually being green but due to the gas shell marked green in the German and British Artillery Brigade. The soldier himself saw a person die right before his eyes from the gas which foreshadows that it will haunt him for the rest of his

The soldier himself is frightened on why he could not save him which haunts him in his dreams as he says “In all my dreams/ before my helpless sight” is how every time he dreams he sees the soldier and he cannot control it causing him to think of it every night frightening him everyday. Soon he will feel that the dead person wants revenge for his death as the soldier states “he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”, The dead soldier always comes into the narrator's dream wanting revenge as he chokes him as how he was being choked by the gas clouds and then drowning as how the dead soldier drowned in the green sea of chlorine gas. The horrors of war is what scares the soldier even after the war. At first soldiers imagine themselves as heroes creating them eager and excited they are until they finally get to the front and see no man's land. No man's land is usually bumpy with shell holes and dead trees that are either broken or burnt. They see the Ground stained with blood and the carcasses left behind, Some are even burnt that nothing is left but their skeleton and some cloth that is stained on their rib cage and their cranium. Nothing left as the soldiers look onto no man's land but the horrific sight of what battle their was there and what battle their will be for their