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Compare the different approaches to war shown in the extracts from Shakespeare and the poetry from the First World War.
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Compare the different approaches to war shown in the extracts from Shakespeare and the poetry from the First World War. How are the approaches different and how similar in the ways they bring the experience of war to life and to what extent have attitudes changed towards the glory of war by 1914? Over the centuries attitudes to war have changed due public understanding and advancements in technology. The extracts from Shakespeare's Othello and Henry V, which were written between 1599 and 1604, portray war very differently from the poets of the First World War. At these different times war would have been very different, so it is understandable that attitudes maybe different. The Shakespearian extracts are written for the stage where as the poems are more venting emotions, so they will have different approaches to how war is portrayed. Othello's speech from Act 3 Scene 3 of the play Othello is...
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