War

During war people live by different morality than in the peace time

World bears testimony to the fact that many catastrophic wars have ravaged civilization over the ages and demolished the very foundation of peace and sustenance . Literature owes much of its richness and to war and it is through describing the sad plight of the people and their impalpable predicament that many literary works have achieved the title of classics . The literary artists have debated over the justness of war and how it affects our morality by describing that moral sense is

ruled and directed by the course of war and compelling people to live by different morality . While Tim O 'Brien , author of The Things They Carried himself was actively involved in the Vietnam War , Joseph Conrad has closely witnessed the atrocities of the natives in Congo during his tenure as a captain of a Congo steamboat , which made him produce his widely read novel Heart of Darkness . Albert Camus , the author of The Plague had bitter experiences during the Nazi-occupied France

In The Things They Carried , Tim O 'Brien renders a poignant detail of the Vietnam War , during the second half of the 20th century and describes the journey of the protagonist , Lt . Cross . It is in this literary piece that he described how young soldier , mostly in their early twenties had to bear the emotional burdens . These young soldiers were children boyfriends , and students who neither knew how to justify killing people nor how to accept...