HUM 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dream Interpretation, St Mary Woolnoth, Trench Warfare
8 Jun 2018
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War and Culture in the Modern Age
Enthusiasm for the Great War
-Popular support for th war effort strong at the outset of war in 1914
:European men flooded recruitment offices to enlist in the military
:Support for WWI was fueled by nationalist sentiments
:Widespread belief that the war would be short
-Imagery and propaganda of WWI reflects popular sentiments regarding the war
Experience of Trench Warfare; Ypres Front
-First battle of Ypres introduced the Great Powers to trench warfare
-View of the neutral zone between the allied and German lines
-Pock marks represent explosion from artillery shells
-Conditions along the battlefield was influenced as much by weather as military echnology
-Second battle of Ypres features the first use of chemical warfare
Casualties of the Great War
-Russia; 12 million soldiers mobilized
:1.7 million dead; 5 million wounded
:2.5 million MIA
-Great Britain; 8.9 million soldiers mobilized
:900,000 dead; 2 million wounded
:190,000 MIA
-France; 8.4 million soldiers mobilized
:1.4 million dead; 4.3 million wounded
:500,000 MIA
-German; 11 million soldiers mobilized
:1.7 million dead; 4.2 million wounded
:1.2 million MIA
-Austria Hungary; 7.8 million soldiers mobilized
:1.2 million dead; 3.6 million wounded
:2.2 million MIA
The Loss of Progress
-The experience of WWI and European Pessimism
:Technology and strategy of warfare influence skeptical thinking towards the notion of progress
:Questioning of Europe's moral authority
:Growing acceptance of nihilistic philosophy
-European imperialism was based on a natural superiority
:Conduct of war led to questions regarding the place of European in the world
T.S. Eliot; the Wastemland
-What are the roots that clutch that branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of woman, you cannot say or
guess, for you know only a heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives no shelter, the
cricket no relief, and the dry stone no sound of water. Only there is shadow under this red rock (Come in under
the a shadow of this red rock), and I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning
striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. A
crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had no thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and
infrequent, were exhaled, and each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King
William Street, to where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours with a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying Stetson! You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! That
corpse you plated last year in your garden, has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden
frost disturbed its bed?
John Cecil Cadoux; the Early Christian Attitude to War (1919)
-Represents a Christian reflection on the impact of World War I
:Premise: the church has failed in its guidance of European culture
:Implicit argument; the church has deviated from the teachings of the early church on warfare
:Method; evaluation of the ethics of Christianity
-Early Christian theologians disapproved of the war
Max Ernst
-Surrealist painter and collage artist
-Two ambiguous figures painting
-Pencil collage over a science catalogue
-Interrelationship between science and war
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Document Summary
Popular support for th war effort strong at the outset of war in 1914. :european men flooded recruitment offices to enlist in the military. :support for wwi was fueled by nationalist sentiments. :widespread belief that the war would be short. Imagery and propaganda of wwi reflects popular sentiments regarding the war. First battle of ypres introduced the great powers to trench warfare. View of the neutral zone between the allied and german lines. Conditions along the battlefield was influenced as much by weather as military echnology. Second battle of ypres features the first use of chemical warfare. :technology and strategy of warfare influence skeptical thinking towards the notion of progress. European imperialism was based on a natural superiority. :conduct of war led to questions regarding the place of european in the world. A crowd flowed over london bridge, so many, i had no thought death had undone so many.
