Journey's end by RC Sherriff The stage directions in Journey's end at the beginning of the extract are of utmost importance because they use a lot of imagery and symbolism, which later is linked back to this extract, at eth end of the play, there is a candle on the table which gets blown out, symbolising the doom and death of the men. In the stage directions it mentions the sunset, "towards sunset......light that …showed first 75 words of 1053 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1053 total…was a lot of respect within the war and a lot of focus on social status. Also the colonel's character wouldn't have admitted to Stanhope his knowledge because when war literature was written during the war that would have been disallowed, also because it was almost all idealistic. The intentions of the author was to inform modern readers of the actual implications of war were like and what the life in the trenches were like.