the horrors of war theme
The terrible impact war has on individuals is featured.
50 total · 12 choice · 23 major · 15 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | choice | A main point of the story is to show how awful the realities of war can be. Scenes showed soldiers starving and pilfering. Scenes showed soldiers being mowed down by machine guns. Scenes showed soldiers suffering dismemberment. The main character, Paul, ended up being killed in flower of his youth by a sniper as he reached out of his hiding place to touch a butterfly. |
| movie: Apocalypse Now (1979) | choice | point of the story seemed to be to show how gruesome, pointless, and terrifying things can get during a war |
| movie: Come and See (1985) | choice | the movie showed German aggressions and atrocities committed on poor people in Belarus, as well as some rather nasty behavior by Belorussian militants |
| movie: Full Metal Jacket (1987) | choice | especially the second half showcased war atrocities and indignities |
| movie: Glory (1989) | choice | gruesome conditions were portrayed |
| movie: Paths of Glory (1957) | choice | we saw pitiful soldier dying in droves on the Maginot line |
| movie: Seven Samurai (1954) | choice | we saw the farmer's lot in medeival japan as bands of desperate banits raided their villages for food; we saw people fearful of being killed; we saw people dying pitifully |
| novel: The Buried Giant (2015) | choice | fields of bones etc |
| play: Henry VI Part 3 (1595) | choice | we saw how civil war leads to suffering and many dead children; Henry VI lamented the horrors and commented on a son killing a father and a father killing a son |
| tos1x23 | choice | Kirk ended the virtual war by threatening to bring real war with all its horrors |