Essays On War
Essays on war can be difficult to write. One cannot speak of war without mentioning the hardships involved, but one may feel that every war has only hardships, and no good ever comes of them. It’s not true; some wars have brought more good than bad, while others have caused more pain than pleasure. War essays should start with a general introduction that states the main points discussed, and you should organize them well.
One good way to approach essays about war is to discuss the different reasons why wars are fought. There are several places online to get help writing war essays. You can also get samples of essays on the topic to help you get started. For example, wars are fought because one nation wants to take over another nation. It’s called imperialism, and it was a big reason why World War I happened. The nations of Europe were trying to expand their empires, and when they got into a conflict with each other, it led to a big war.
War attacks personal relationships regardless of where or when it is being waged. The brutal atmosphere of hate in battle, the surreptitious manipulation of those in charge, and the loss of so many lives make it impossible for love to reside. Under the guise of chivalry war beckons men to serve a just cause and […]
In 1798, Robert Southey penned the Battle of Blenheim, a poetic journey to the past. The poem commemorates the victory of the Duke of Marlborough over the French and Austrians. Among its characters is Old Kaspar, a peasant residing on the very grounds where the battle once ravaged. In the first verse, Southey establishes the […]
Journey’s End is a play by R. C Sherriff that focuses on the realities of World War I, it highlights the sort of lives that people led throughout this period and the destruction it caused. However to some extant it can be argued that Journey’s End doesn’t only show the destruction of war but it […]
“In Flander’s Fields,” written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae during World War I, is to this day, one of the most monumental war poems ever composed. Created as a legacy of the horrifying battle in the Ypres salient in 1915; this very vivid poem gives its reader the sense of death, while its beautiful images […]
Diverse Cultures are the study of other cultures and opinions of major issues from different origins and ethnic backgrounds. I will examine different points of view of various poets from diverse cultures and how they express cultural ideas in their poems. I have chosen to study three poems, which I researched, with different ideas and […]
Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavily in the streets of London, lamps were lit and shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night. I was sitting in a cab and driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares, starring out of the window at the […]
The two poems that will be discussed in this essay both mentions how the soldier’s family who is at home or the women who has no knowledge about war romanticize and support the war. In fact the poems tell the reader how these people help in prolonging the war and how dedicated they are in […]
Poetry is often used to convey a strong message about humanity. With close reference to the language of two modern war poems, compare and contrast the anti-war messages each poet is trying to portray by describing pictures of conflict across the world and decide which of the two has the most impact on the reader. […]
War has given writers much material to use in books, short stories, descriptive essays, poems etc. Sometimes these merely narrate incidents and bring them up to story form. For instance Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, War and Peace, tells the story of five families during the Napoleonic Wars, “The Great Escape” by Paul Brickhill which […]
In the poem, Thomas makes quite a few references and allusions to war. He uses the nature and weather described in the poems as metaphors for various aspects of the war. The blizzard that is mentioned in the poem could be interpreted as a metaphor for either death or war. “In France they killed him; […]
On the eve of the First World War, Italy’s political landscape was changing. One of the key issues that divided the different parties was the question on whether or not they should go to war. Those that supported the war were known as Interventionists. Interventionist parties included the Futurists, Nationalists, some Socialists and some Liberals. […]
The first civil war was a war lasting numerous years. Throughout the war it was never certain who was going to win. In the end however, Parliament succeeded and gained a great victory whilst that of King Charles and his Royalist side failed. Why did Parliament win the civil war? Firstly, the generals were a […]
1640 saw the eleven year period of Charles’ Personal Rule come to an end with the MP’s and the majority of the country’s people hoping that the grievances and problems created by this period would now be coming to a similar fate, restoring the country’s peace, balance and religious stability. England was by no means […]
On my native village is a poem written in 1830’s/40’s by James Taylor. It is about the changes that Royton went through during industrialisation. In verses one and two the poet describes his feelings on his hometown and how he felt the textile industry impacted the environment and nature within Royton during that time. He […]
This is the inconvenient truth- wars have been a part of our history from the beginning of time. Conflicts arising from different countries, colonies or communities have led to wars; sometimes for the greater good or sometimes for greed. What the people of the country fail to realize is the aftermath of these wars- the […]
On 6th August 1945, a silverplate Boeing B-29 superfortress flew over the densely populated Japanese city of Hiroshima. The plane, ‘Enola Gay’, was carrying a highly radioactive atomic bomb containing the actinide Uranium-235. Hiroshima is the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, Japan’s largest island and used to be an embarkation port […]
By the end of ‘Henry V’, Henry seems to be a transformed person. From a king who is being manipulated from all sides, he leads his country to win a seemingly impossible war against France. On the other hand, this does not mean that he is a model king because there are many instances in […]
It indeed aims to expose the war-time propaganda of World War One. It almost appears comical when the moroseness of Owen’s exposure is contrasted to the pro-war propaganda of the time. Owen is a monotone and sobering voice to the romanticised perceptions of war at the time. Society was largely ignorant of the realities of […]
History & Context This conflict analysis is focused on the violent civil war in Angola that occurred from 1998 to 2001. Angola, a country that has experienced little peace since gaining independence from Portugal twenty-six years ago, lacks a clear explanation for the conflict. The nature of the conflict has changed significantly over time, initially […]
H. G Wells very successfully depicts an atmosphere of terror and foreboding by using a number of literary and dramatic techniques. He uses vivid descriptions, metaphor, simile, contrast and powerful imagery to show the horrific results of an alien attack on an unsuspecting population. The opening lines (“No one would have believed… slowly and surely […]
“The War of the Worlds” was published in 1898 by the forefather of the science fiction genre H. G. Wells. At this time, the concept of Martians arriving on earth was revolutionary. “So vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed […]
In the Wasps’ Nest, there are two wasps that have come to the poet’s mailbox to build their home. We know that this is the poet’s mailbox when he says “… my mailbox’s metal hold” in line 5. These two wasps are busily building their nest with paper and mud. Even with the “displeasure of […]
