Disillusionment in Evelyn Waugh’s Men at Arms
Khamis Khalaf Mohammad
Al-Qalam University College/English Department
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.3.7
Keywords: -Depression -disillusionment Guy Crouchback -Halberdiers -Kut-al-Imara
Abstract
This paper aims at exploring the leitmotif of, disillusionment in the
military life of, the protagonist, Guy Crouchback, in Men at Arms
Waugh’s first volume of a war trilogy, Sword of Honour, which is
based on his own experience of the Second World War. It is a
grotesque black comedy on the scheme of a chivalric illusion,
associated with severe loss of old battles and a series of anticlimactic
military defeats where the British-Indian troops fought against the
Turks in 1915-1916 at Kut-al-Imara, a small town in the south of Iraq.
