There's Life in the Trenches
There's Life in the Trenches
There's Life in the Trenches
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Introduction<br />
• “home front” <strong>the</strong> civilian population of a country at war.<br />
• Romantic image of <strong>the</strong> war<br />
• Censorship no news<br />
• Sassoon’s poetry women’s lack of knowledge of what <strong>the</strong> war<br />
really was.<br />
• Women’s <strong>in</strong>volvement not passive<br />
- <strong>in</strong> hospitals as nurses<br />
- <strong>in</strong> factories to build weapons<br />
The follow<strong>in</strong>g are two examples of how women were portrayed dur<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>the</strong> war: one depicts <strong>the</strong>m as useless people, <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r shows a more<br />
positive side of <strong>the</strong>m.
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