Shaw and Owens
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The treatment of war in the play Arms and the Man and the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est by George Bernard Shaw and Wilfred Owen respectively is quite similar. Both writers use satire, irony and sarcasm to poke holes in romantic and noble attitudes regarding war. In Owen’s poem, he begins by describing the realistic aspects of actually fighting in a war. Men are “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,/Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” (Owen 1). In other words, the actual realities of war are only romantic or heroic to those who have never been in one. Being in one makes the soldier understand first hand that there is nothing romantic or glorious about war—it is a hellish nightmare that anyone with common sense would choose to avoid. Owen then takes us through a poison gas attack on his troop and his eye-witness account of one man “flound’ring like a man in fire or lime/…He
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