JE - Osborne

• "Yes - I'm leaving it here


  I don't want the risk of loosing it" Act 3 Scene 1

  
• "Must have somebody


  to tuck me up in bed" Act 3 Scene 1 - Stanhope
• "How cheerfully he seems to grin and neatly spread his claws,


  and welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws" Act 2 Scene 2 - Extract from Alice in wonderland

  
• "I wish I knew how to

  fight a battle like those boys of mine" Act 2 Scene 1
• "I've got a sort of


  empty feeling inside" Act 3 scene 1

  
• "Iron

  grey hair" - Stage directions - Act 1
• Osborne Paragraph 1: Osborne represents the pacifist attitudes towards World war 1


  - "Think of it all as romantic, it helps" - Act 1 talking to Raleigh - Osborne uses this to cope with his pacifist attitude towards war to try and romanticise it for his own sake

  - "I wish I knew how to fight a battle like those boys of mine" - Act 2 Scene 1 - Osborne is peaceful and isn't able to show the aggression and violence a soldier needs to survive

  Context : Conscientious objectors during the war were punished and outcasted from society for objecting to the war, Osborne tries to cope with what would seem to be "cowardice" at the time
• Osborne paragraph 1: Osbornes death during the raid acts as a catalyst for Stanhopes outburst of rage


  - "Must you sit on Osbornes bed?" Act 3 scene 1

  - "You bloody little swine" - Act 3 Scene 2

  Context: Stanhope's outburst of rage that has been building inside him can be related to the toxic masculinity at the time, men, and especially officers during WW1, were not able to show emotion as it was a sign of weakness
• Osborne paragraph 3: Osborne euphemises war and lies to others to benefit the mental state of his comrades


  - "We must put up a good show" - Osborne to Raleigh before the raid -

  - "When people are going potty, they never talk about it" A2 S1

  Context: Osborne here is clearly trying to fight back against the depressing conditions that took heavy tolls on men during World war one, Osborne is aware of their inevitable deaths, which is why he tries to benefit their lives so much now even if he needs to lie