The Wars
Timothy Findley's novel The Wars shows the cruelty and perversity of the First World War. However, as the plural in the title suggests, it is more than just a story about the historical war. War also works on a metaphorical level. In fact, there are three wars in it that contain a pacifist message. The war of technology against nature is the most obvious. It shows that if people destroy nature, a livable environment is no longer provided. Another war, which is not that obvious at first, is the struggle of Robert Ross to become a natural person again and to cope with all the changes his career as a soldier has created within him. His inner struggle leads us directly to the third big war, the war against obedience that reappears constantly in the novel. Findley suggests that everybody should take more responsibility for his action and to question authority. Here we discuss how Findley portrays these struggles for humanity. Findley introduces us from the very first moment to the war of technology against nature. In the first line Findley represents a horse as a symbol of nature alienated by war-machinery: "She was standing in the middle of the railroad tracks. Her head was bowed and her right front foot was raised as if she r
From this point, Robert is not fighting against the Germans anymore, he is fighting the people who make him do things that do not correspond with his morals. The more the warring parties destroy nature, the harder it gets for the soldiers to survive in the destroyed environment. On the ship to England he has to kill a living creature for the first time. Robert shot him between the eyes" (178). Their graves, it seemed just dug themselves and pulled them down. The soldier does not act according to the dictates of his leaders but instead he followed his own morals. This includes maintaining our planet and making careful political decisions. Thus we can see the military police as an intermediary between the leaders of countries and the common soldiers. For no particular reason the family hires a soldier to kill the rabbits: "Why do the rabbits have to be killed?" asks Robert.
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