War, Lawrence LeShan, and Rupert Brooke

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The writers Lawrence LeShan and Rupert Brooke are examples of individuals who offered different, even contrasting, perspectives about the concept of war. For the purpose of this paper, an analysis is conducted wherein LeShan's "Why We Love War" and Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" are compared. The comparative analysis includes a discussion of how the two authors created and expressed their own concepts of war and how these different concepts serve as an illustration of how the different realities of the writers contributed and influenced to the formulation of these "war" concepts.

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"Rupert Brooke, on the other hand, presented a functionalist view of the war, by evoking feelings and ideologies of patriotism and nationalism. Where LeShan centers his discussion on the nature and concept of war throughout human history through the social science perspective, Brooke offers an individualist or humanistic view of the war. The writer, through his poem, "The Soldier", presents the psyche of an individual as he engaged in the war, the feelings and opinions of a person who is willing to die for his country. The poem illustrates how death becomes a means to an end, and this "end" is, ideally, to bring forth peace and unity to the whole world."

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