Journey's End Annotation

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 slowly fades with the sinking sun"
This symbolises the fore coming death that is looming, the light imagery within the play shows this.
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