Crane- War Dehumanizing
In the early years of the Civil War, writer Stephen Crane wrote two pieces of literature about war. He describes in the short story, Mystery of Heroism, why a young man would risk his life to get two buckets of water. In the beginning ofthe story the character, Collins, is cheered on by his comrades to get the water in the middle of a skirmish and he risks his life which is so precious to many to go fetch a pail of water. In the poem, War is Kind, Crane describes what war is like and what is taught about war. In the poem Crane shows emphasizes the rumor people who want to join the army are people who look at it from the outside and see how well coordinated it is, they also see how much fun it may be. In the short story Crane describes the battlefield in which thousands of wounded and dying soldiers show what war is really like, death and destruction. In the two pieces of literature Stephan Crane uses many ways to show that war is feudal and destructive. The similarities between the story and the poem show that war is dehumanizing. In Crane's short story, he writes of a character who risks his life for a pail of water, because someone joked him about his thirst, "Well, if yeh want a
In the vivid description of battle scenes, this is one of Crane's way to show that war is destructive. Crane's unique style of the usage of irony shows the reader how war is destructive and deadly. " Here Crane shows that war can rip things away from people who need and love them, like an arm in this case, or maybe Crane is showing that a man may come home from war and not be the same person. In the two pieces of literature Crane wrote, he shows that the character is not sure of what he/she is getting themselves into but they do it anyway. Throughout both the poem and the story Crane describes well that neither character knows what they are getting themselves into. They all have lost their duty in life, some losing their marriage, others losing brotherhood, some losing being a son to a mother, and others losing the privilege of fatherhood. Crane is using Collins to express the way war can tear someone apart, by risking a life that is held to most so dear, over a pail of water. War is not kind, it turns out throughout the poem Crane tells the reader that all that may come out of war is a loss of a loved one. Irony is another one of Crane's subjects that he uses throughout his two pieces of literature. Or maybe a different race or religion, they all have something in common. In one scene in the Mystery of Heroism Crane describes the a soldier who is carrying his right arm in his left hand, "holding his right arm carefully in his left hand. Finally, Crane shows us that army is pretty on the outside but horrific and terrifying on the inside. This is ironic because Collins risked his life for a simple task but received no contemplation because of the two generals ignorance of spilling the water. In the story Crane describes well that Collins does not know what he got himself into because he risks his life to fetch water. Both pieces of Literature bond to show that the only result of war is death and destruction.
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