War Is Unpredictable

To an extent contend is unpredictable, however the meaningless punishment and debase conduct is something that soldiers experience invariablely throughout contend. In Owens poem Anthem for Doomed Youth he diminishes the patriotism and heroism that is commonly associated with state of struggle and replaces it with depictions of the harsh punishment and perfidious death of youth in war. Correspondingly in his poem Dulce et Decorum Est he extends the theme of unpatriotic behaviour and turn over death and suggests that war is also a devilish and sinful practice, where nothing but death and hatred arise.Contrastingly, in Stanley Kubricks war film to the full Metal Jacket he does not look at death in war, but conversely the internal punishment that superior officers give to soldiers, harshly exploring the training and punishment soldiers receive before war. Ultimately, these three texts explore the lack of honour and worthless punishment that soldiers experience constantly in war, depicting war as a place of hatred and sin. In Owens poem Anthem he removes the common Romantic concepts of doughnut and triumph that were associated with war from the previous(predicate) 20th century and realistically explores the truly unpatriotic nature of the battlefield.His ideals contrasted the Romantic ideals of glory as well as the government and the media who exhibited war as heroic and fitting for the youth of the early 20th century. Instantly, Owens title of the poem contradicts the readers belief in the common war values where he pairs the terms Anthem and Doomed Youth juxtaposing with a gloomy and depressing description of the youth in war. Owen then compares the youth who died as cattle to an slaughterhouse by using metaphor, emphasising the sheer amount of death that occurs on the battlefield, also suggesting that the youth are indiscriminately dying with no justification.Likewise, Owen uses juxtaposition to describe the sounds of war, in which he subverts the ca lming sound of choirs and depicts them as demented, illuminating the sound of screaming comrades in war and enhancing his anti-heroic view. Thus, Owen through his poem Anthem dishonours the common concepts of glory and triumph, and replaces them with mockeries of the dying youth in war, ultimately suggesting war unheroic and the soldiers deaths unglorified. On the contrary, Stanley Kubricks war film FMJ explores the internal and meaningless punishment that soldiers experience whilst training to perplex a soldier, aggressively depicting the raining as harsh and suicidal. Directed in 1979, Steven Kubricks position on war was neither affirmative nor prejudicious and simply stated he was concerned with the way things are, thus forcefully depicting the disciplinary discrepancies of the Ameri domiciliates in Vietnam. The opening montage of the camera focussed on the soldiers heads being shaved depicts the blank expressionless faces of the soldiers and shows the identity loss of the sold iers in war, illustrating their inconsequential individuality.Kubrick uses harsh and explicit dialogue to filtrate how even though war is fair everyone participating is equally worthless, again punishing the soldiers for their racial background and individuality. Likewise, in the final scene of the precedent sequence before the war, Kubrick displays the suicidal aspect of the meaningless punishment, where Private Pile explains that even though there is war going on in Vietnam, he is in a world of shit after the punishment from the senior officers. This harsh portrayal of pre-war training explains Kubricks view that internally war can be as detrimental as it is on the battlefield.Correspondingly, Owen aims to eradicate all romantic feelings in Dulce et Decorum Est and instead represent war as a sinful and devilish practice. The ironic titling of the poem initially subverts any sense of patriotism and glory associated with war, and condemns the romanticised portrayals of war that th e government and the media have created. By deliberately subverting the heroic Latin phrase through the bleak ideas in his poem, Owen depicts the title as an old lie where he suggests that glorification and bravery in war is undermined by the fallacies of the government and the media.In addition, his use of metaphor in the first stanza exemplifies the mechanised and fatigued state of the soldiers in war, where the soldiers marched asleep from the endless punishment and futility of war. Owen indicates here exactly how lame the soldiers were with the pain and suffering of war, illuminating the punishment and empty nationalism he attempts to portray. Furthermore, the graphic vision of the sinfulness and devilish nature of war utilize in the third stanza highlights the devilish and sinful representation, by comparing a comrade to a devil sick of sin.Owen here evaluates war as a whole, as a place where even the devil can no longer handle the horrid pain and meaningless suffering. This powerful imagery removes the Romantic ideals of patriotism substituting them with a morbid depiction of choking with sin. Thus, Owen eradicates the glory and valour that had been associated with war literature in the 20th Century and indicts war as a fallacy to children who are desperate for honour. Ultimately, Owen aims to challenge all feelings of glory and heroism that are commonly associated with war and shift these concepts to a past fallacy where sinful and devilish behaviour arises.Alternately, Kubrick strives to explore both the harsh and unforgiving nature of the battlefield and the meaningless punishment experienced internally in the U. S Marine Corps, where even the pre-war training results in the suicide of a soldier. Each text explains the horror and meaningless punishment as a constant and predictable outcome, as wells as the horrifying and sinful behaviour that soldiers experience, however Owens poem Dulce et Decorum Est more effectively depicts the unpredictability of war by emphasising how disgusting war is, promoting it as foreign to any kind of valour and partisanship.