World War 1 Trauma Research Paper

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What is trauma? Trauma is a disturbing experience which may affect one or more lives emotionally, physically, or mentally. World War I was a traumatic war assisted by advanced technology and mechanization. From the years 1914 to 1916 of World War I, the trust in technology created a long, destructive war, which demolished nature and lives, as well as dehumanized soldiers, and involved civilians in the war, leaving technology creating the worst trauma of World War I. World War I began in 1914 and lasted until 1916. There are various different opinions and theories of what caused World War I, including Nationalism, Alliances and trust in technology (Tambor, Class Notes, 10/22/14). I argue that the trust in technology was the most…show more content…
769). Heavy artillery had turned a peaceful little billeting town into a scene of desolation in the course of a day or two… The sunken road now appeared as nothing but a series of enormous shell holes filled with pieces of uniform, weapons, and dead bodies. The ground all round, as far as the eye could see, was plowed by shells. You can search in vain for one wretched blade of grass (Ernst Junger, The Storm of Steel, p. 3). Junger clearly expresses the detrimental, physical trauma to the land from the technology of the war within his passage. The war and the heavy technology turned all aspect of life, such as trees, land, grass, humans and roads into nothingness. There was a perversion of nature from man made steel, which death growing from it (Tambor, Class Notes, 10/27/14). Technology has corrupted land and life destroying it during World War…show more content…
The enemy had attacked with gas shells and the men were poisoned. Their lungs were terribly burned… As the men choked for life they grew purple and the face-their tongues grew almost black. They died the most painfully (Robert Scotland Liddell, On the Russian Front, p. 2). With the poison gas shell, it became easier to kill men in abundance, as well as in a painful way. From Liddell’s passage, it is evident that the men hit with the poison gas were in great amounts of pain and suffering until they died. The creation of the poison gas attacked men from the inside of their bodies starting by destroying the lungs and other internal organs causing great pain as stated in Liddell’s passage. Death caused by poison gas was agonizing, traumatic and merciless. A sickly scent of dead bodies rose from many of the ruins... A little girl lay dead in a pool of blood on the threshold of one of the doorways… The corpses were covered with the mass of soil turned up by the shells… Death lay in ambush for each one in every shell hole, merciless and making one merciless turn. Chivalry here took a final farewell. It had to yield to the heightened intensity of war, just as all fine and personal feeling has to yield when machinery gets the upper hand (Ernst Junger, The Storm of Steel, p. 3, 4,
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