A Journey's End

The play is settled in World War I at France. It begins inside a dugout (a place underground where soldiers lived) in which we found two British soldiers, who, as they talk, present the rest of the characters, their location and their feelings. They talk about Captain Stanhope who is a young man that has been on the trenches for three years, apparently he is very nervous all the time and gets drunk very often, but has become a brave fighter. This play gives us a clear image of the psychological changes that men receive when they go to war.

The main characters are:
Captain Stanhope
Osborne
Raleigh
Hardy
Hibbert

This play was written by the English author R.C. Sherriff in 1928 and was first performed in 1928 in the Apollo Theatre, England.
In my opinion Sherriff wrote this play to show people that war isn’t just about going and return safely (if there’s a return), but that this men were exposed to big stress and to see how other men, maybe their friends, died in front of them.