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This 3 page paper answers questions about Vera Brittain’s account of World War I as presented in “Testament of Youth.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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young people the world over, Brittain, her brother, friends and the young man to whom she would become engaged had a romantic picture of war. To them it was a
noble undertaking, a great adventure, a way to serve their country and defeat its enemies. They were not prepared for the ugly, brutal and disgusting reality in part because they
believed the propaganda pumped out by the government (Brittain). Vera writes that she and others of her generation are haunted by the war, and seeks to understand why. "I
think it is because of the terrible irony of the War," she says, and then observes that men and boys joined up by the thousands, and then found out what
it was like: "... the obscenity of the square miles of mud, barbed wire, broken trees and shattered bodies" (Brittain 9). But the biggest irony of all, and the thing
that seems to have affected her most deeply, was what she called the "imbalance" between what the men were fighting for as against the losses on both sides (Brittain). An
entire generation of young European men simply disappeared. It was also an eye-opener for her when, as she worked as a nurse, she found herself trying to heal German boys
that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching up the young men to send the back into the melee pointed out to
her as nothing else did the utter futility and stupidity of war in general, and the First World War in particular. Brittain was also a life-long feminist, but the
intensity of her commitment was surely heightened by the war. She had learned quite early in life that women were at a severe disadvantage in life: "The disadvantages of being
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