1. CW Journey’s End Saturday, 20 April 2019
Learning Outcomes
To be able to engage with different readings
To be able to make links between the portrayal of key characters in the play with those in “Toby’s Room”

2. Order the names in response to the following….
There is no right answer. Be prepared to argue the order you have chosen.
The most sympathetically portrayed character
The character with the most power
The most realistic character
The most compassionate character
The bravest character

3. Re-read The Gun Scene with Stanhope and Hibbert
Discuss and support or challenge the following readings of this section of the play….
The audience lose sympathy for Stanhope at this point, as his Sherriff depicts him as cruel and insensitive.
Sherriff cannot appear to sympathise with Hibbert’s fear; he ensures that any sympathy created for the character is lost later in the play.
It is not Hibbert who Stanhope is angry with – it is his recognition of the injustice of a war that can affect men in this way.

4. Perceptions of Heroism? Sympathetically Portrayed?
Surviving Trauma?
Perceptions of Heroism?
Stanhope
Toby Brooke
Women?
Alcohol?
Attitude towards War?
Role as an Officer?
Sympathetically Portrayed?
Treatment of Others?
Kit Neville