Findley's The Wars: Analysis

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He went through many of the same problems and was faced with many of the same dilemmas all soldiers went through in that time. Robert had to frequently deal with the death and mutilation of his friends and fellow soldiers. He also experienced the horrors on the battlefield, for example when “chlorine and phosgene”(p.75) was used at the beginning and “mustard gas”(p.75) was unleashed on the soldiers at the end of the battle of “Ypres”(p.73) and the witnessing of men dying before your eyes. Robert also felt almost constant uncertainty about what was going to happen next and he had to deal with the boredom in the trenches and try to find ways to pass the time until he was to go back out on the battlefield. He also had to follow orders he didn’t really want to, such as having to kill a horse that had “gone and broke its leg”(p.62), when Robert felt it didn’t have to be killed. Although, the novel is about Robert’s own experiences, his experiences could very well have been the ...

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