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What techniques does Louis de Bernières use to portray the effects of the war so powerfully?
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What techniques does Louis de Bernières use to portray the effects of the war so powerfully? Louis de Bernières uses many techniques to portray the effects of the war as powerfully as he does. He uses techniques that vary from use of language, to using the diary of a homosexual soldier. In the in-between there are other techniques such as: contrast of the good and bad effects of the war; death, from the inside and the outside; or showing feelings from soldiers instead of numbers and figures. From my point of view, the use of language is the technique that sticks out the most. He uses all sorts of words, meanings, effects and even languages! Just as he uses sarcasm everywhere: "War is a wonderful thing. In movies and in books." Sarcasm is very well applied, as in a real war there is also sarcasm, cynism and irony in everyone´s words....
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