The Art of Loving War

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document in English

political science

school essay

published 19/10/2007

review : Completed

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The image of a soldier is that of a stereotype. He barely passed high school or did not pass at all. He laughed at the idea of college, he laughed at the price. He works every weekday and drinks every weekend. Bosses and police officers have no reasons to give him a second chance. “One more screw up and you’re out,” his father threatens year in and year out, until the threats and his father blur into the background of a life he no longer wishes to live. Maybe one day while bagging groceries, or serving a hamburger at the local stand, he notices a man in a uniform. He notices how proud the man looks, how strong, how brave: he pictures how brave he would look in uniform. A few letters, a few phone calls, and he is enlisted. “It was my one-way ticket out of Hell,” he says years later, to a wife who does not know him, to children who do not miss him. And he comes back ten years later from someone else’s war with only one leg and the bravery he was never strong enough to forsake, to a Hell he was never meant to escape. He must have been desperate, for he chose the path of war. Because that is the military, right? The path to war?

The image of a soldier is that of a stereotype. He barely passed high school or did not pass at all.
From the media to public opinion, the military is synonymous with war. It draws the desperately willing, and it drafts the desperately unwilling.
Almost every year, a few war movies are released.
The soldiers in Fable are 'Everymen.' Most remain nameless, identified solely by the roles they play in World War I.
They turn to the military solely to kill legally, to give life to the aggressions harbored in their inner savageness that societal boundaries will never permit.
Many men are blinded by war. They turn to the military solely to kill legally, to give life to the aggressions harbored in their inner savageness that societal boundaries will never permit.
The first soldier introduced in Fable is the group commander.
In a more traditional sense, William Faulkner introduces the character of a young fighter pilot, a grunt in the lines.
From the officers so hungry for vengeance and pain that they return to the ranks of the enlisted, or sentence themselves and their men to death to uphold the integrity of the war machine