Sherwood’s Vision of War in There Shall Be No Night
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aggression, death, destruction, man, society.Abstract
Abstract:
The history of the world is a violent one because of numerous wars dating back to the Indian war of 18th and 19th centuries' earliest colonizers up to modern wars of 20th century. Though the causes of wars are different, they have harmful and aggressive effect on both man and society as well. Obviously, war is a futile and unnecessarily destructive act in time, there may be some form of solutions for the madness of war that away from violence for the sake of living normal and peaceful life.
In fact, war is un re-generative no matter what the justifications; war is not a choice of manly fights for being generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality deterioration, death, using regular or irregular military forces.
War has been the focus of great many dramatists whose aim is to reveal the horrible effect of war on man and society. They portray the scientific and technical means used in war that changed after each basic one happened in the world. For them, the economic changes that causes the great depression is responsible for war as young people has no hope not only for future but in present as well. Robert Sherwood, is one of those who through this play "There Will Be No Night" and other ones put forth to awaken people's consciousness to avoid war and fight under any excuse
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