Faulks captures a dehumanising quality within the world of warfare in a way that highlights the horrifying extent of the mass slaughter carried out; illustrating mans ability to disregard any ounce of morality to mindlessly kill another. He does by dehumanising the characters and trivialising death which demonstrates a distinct loss of humanity. By depicting the soldiers in an artificial sense, he illustrates how war manufactured humans into weapons of mass destruction. Faulks manages to actualise the utter volume of the dehumanisation of the men brought about by the unworldly atmosphere in which they were placed under which Faulks describes had lost all connection with any earthly happiness. Thus indicating that the loss of humanity was so great that it created a place in which felt like a new existence, as if a new normality had been formed. Faulks does this through his striking …(short extract)

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