Vera Brittain Essays

Vera Brittain published her memoir Testament of Youth in 1933. In the memoir, she describes her childhood, work as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.) nurse during World War I and the challenges of life women experienced after the war. What struggles did Vera have to overcome? In this essay, I will discuss the challenges in Vera Brittain’s life during this time period. During Vera’s youth, the only expectation her parents had for her was to marry. To their dismay, she wanted to

Max Vicario English IV Honors Mrs. Schroder February 16 2018 As the novel of Pride and Prejudice progresses, character Elizabeth Bennett forms relationships with both family members and new potential suitors. Elizabeth’s initial judgements set the tone at the beginning of each interaction, but over time, she learns more about these new characters. As her relationships strengthen, Elizabeth uncovers her true feelings and changes in a positive manner by learning more about herself, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Wickham

The Vacuum is a poem about the emptiness of an old man after her wife died. Nemerov started by presenting the environment in which the old man lived in. He also pointed out that the vacuum cleaner was in a corner, seemingly “grinning” (4) at him. He then stated that after his old wife has passed away, she seemed to be inside the vacuum cleaner (8, 9), cleaning up the house whenever the old man used it. The poet further expressed his feeling of loneness by recalling his days with his wife, where she

working the same job as men but getting paid less or playing the stay at home mom but society is still not happy with that. We have come a long way in one hundred years but universally there are a few more kinks before women will be equal to men. Vera Figner’s story I found to be an interesting one. She always wanted to go to school but could not attend University where she was from. Her father had a lot of money which meant he would be able to send her off to a school that accepted women. She traveled

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Testament of Youth is a movie in the form of a historical memoir, in which the protagonist Vera Brittain experiences and describes the traumatic events of World War I. This movie gives a personal perspective of life during the early 1900s, displaying the transition from pre war to the war and the horror of being at home or involved in the battle. Watching this movie provided a much different way of retaining information than learning about it in class or from a textbook. After watching this movie

were killed in what was called the “Great War” and they left behind loved ones who would suffer just as much. The wives, children, parents, cousins, and aunts left behind faced a horror they could not fathom. A first person account, written by Vera Brittain and turned into a film, allows the reader to look through the eyes of someone who has lost a fiance, brother, and friend in the war. The movie helps to reinforce the idea from class that everyone was affected by this war and it takes the statistic

Along with the losses of loved ones, nurses suffered through some awful conditions. The health of these nurses often took a toll. The weather and conditions in which they worked created some major issues for their health and their patients’ health. One Sister wrote to family members complaining about the health issues being faced, “In a letter to her sister she claimed her health had ‘gone to pot…I had some awful nights coughing through a raw, swollen throat with pains all over.’ She further explained

show as much grief is shown in the personal writings of bereaved family members. A grieving father wrote that “thousands of fathers are in the same position.” Similarly, a widow wrote, “I am only one in many hundreds” (Jalland). Writer and nurse Vera Brittain also wrote in regards to her fiancé, “But if he can face death let me show that I can face the fear of death, and work

progress; however, his movement lacked widespread support. It was the disaster of WWI that accelerated their movement by inspiring culture-wide undermining of prior intellectual beliefs through newfound uncertainty: authors such as Erich Remarque and Vera Brittain drew upon sudden doubt underscored by the war to completely reverse prior thinking by breaking down pre-war notions of intellectual

produced by National Geographic, there were many graphic scenes and disturbing pictures that showed the reality of the war and its results. The men in the war had to face pelting bullets, explosive bombs and even mustard gas poisoning. As quoted by Vera Brittain in her memoir, “I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning. Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting