Stanhope from Journey's End by RC Sheriff

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Stanhope from Journey's End

Stanhope provides the most obvious candidate for the accolade of “hero”

in Journey’s End:

R.C.Sherriff has included many themes in Journey’s End; a play

portraying the reality of trench warfare. Some of these include

Comradeship, The horrors of war, Heroism and Relationships. My essay

will be focusing mainly on the theme of heroism.

The audience relate the word “hero” with mainly one character in the

play. But the word hero has many positive connotations. A hero could

be a person who “saves the day” or is a hero in somebody else’s eyes

or maybe even his personality and how he interacts with other

characters could also give him the status of being a hero. There are

many aspects of Stanhope which rightfully award him the status of

being a hero.

The audience is first introduced to the possibility of Stanhope being

a hero when we first meet Raleigh. A keen and un-experienced officer,

Raleigh forces himself into Stanhope’s battalion. Stanhope was

Raleigh’s hero ever since high school, and when he joins the company

he expects to some e...

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