Journeys Essays

Martha Graham’s production of Night Journey is a unique and symbolic contemporary dance work. Graham bases many of her dance pieces on Greek myths and this is seen in her work Night Journey. Graham has manipulated elements of contemporary dance to communicate the emotion of the main character, Jocasta. Graham’s …

Prior to reading A Journey into the DEAF-WORLD, I was not quite sure what to expect. After finishing the first chapter, I began to think that the entire book would be filled with anecdotal stories similar to that in chapter one. However, it became immediately apparent, after finishing chapters two …

In the book Enrique’s Journey, written by Sonia Nazario, readers understand the life of determined Enrique, who travels from Tegucigalpa Honduras to the United States of America to reunite with his mother, who left him to go to the United States when he was 11 years old. Tegucigalpa, Honduras is …

What is it that defines the infamous teenage years that everyone at one point or another goes through? Is it all the struggle of trying to break through the crowd or the stress of facing the endless conflicts that didn’t exist when you were a child? Maybe it’s the pain …

Osborne is a very experienced member of the company who enjoys making his comrades feel content. He is a very avuncular character as he is extremely kind to the less experienced, such as Raleigh. He is also like a confidant to Stanhope, which makes him generous. Sherriff makes him a …

‘A Journey’s End’ the phenomenal play was written by R. C. Sherriff. R. C. Sherriff”s opinion about war is that war is futile, but he has more than one opinion like that war is irrational and bloodshed. In this essay I’m going to discuss how R. C. Sherriff manages to …

The play, Journey’s End, was written by R C Sheriff just ten years after the First World War in 1929. The play is set in a single dark, damp dugout amongst a front line trench, which has probably been chosen to give a very claustrophobic outlook to the entire piece. …

Journey’s End is about life in the trenches during World War One, and about the depressing one by one, soldiers go ‘over the top’ and meet with death routine. The endless spectacle of death has taken its affect on Captain Stanhope; psychologically scarred he becomes an alcoholic to ease the …

Written by R. C Sherriff in 1928, ‘Journey’s End’ was the cause of controversy when the play was first produced in 1929, as the play’s subject matter, the War itself, was still considered a raw period in history. ‘Strange Meeting’, written by Susan Hill in 1971, shared this subject matter …

In this assignment I am going to refer to two specific scenes in which I think dramatic tension is created and relieved extremely well using words, gesture, expressions and movement. The two scenes I am going to look at do portray the real life of war, showing how war can …