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In The Play 'Journey's End' in What Ways do the Characters in Act 1 Attempt to Avoid the Horrors of Trench Warfare?
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In The Play 'Journey's End' in What Ways do the Characters in Act 1 Attempt to Avoid the Horrors of Trench Warfare? In Act 1 the characters in Journeys End attempt to avoid the horrors of trench warfare in a number of different ways like drinking, faking illness, telling stories about things that have happened at home, playing games to pass the time and not taking the war too seriously. These things take the character's minds off the war and help them to feel more relaxed. Some of the characters such as Captain Stanhope choose to drink as their form of escapism, "there are only two ways of breaking the strain. One pretending I was ill - and going home; the other is this (he holds up his glass) which would you pick?" the drink would take his mind off the war and break the strain a bit and help...
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