Journey's End (Penguin Modern Classics)

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In this passage, he speaks of an officer of his who left because of a back problem and later claimed to be a combat expert, when in reality he was barely able to face life in the trenches. The conflict itself was set off when Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria, was assassinated by a Yugoslavian nationalist attempting to upset Austro-Hungarian rule. The play begins with Hardy and Stanhope’s second in command - Osborne - discussing what Stanhope is like. Climax: After days of mounting tension and anticipation, the Germans finally stage a massive attack on the British trenches, seriously overwhelming Stanhope’s infantry and fatally wounding Raleigh. But Raleigh fails to understand and seems to have an idealistic close idealistic Someone who has high or noble goals and bases their behaviour on these ideals, even if they are unrealistic.

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S-M: Then oughtn’t we to fix up something about, well [ he gropes for the right words]—er—falling back? STANHOPE: There’s no need to—you see, this company’s a lot better than A and B Companies on either side of us.

At one point, he reads a passage of Alice in Wonderland aloud to Trotter, who says, “I don’t see no point in that.When the Colonel finally leaves, Stanhope and Raleigh look at one another as gunfire sounds overhead.