Victory Before 1st Arrangement

The soldier of The Hall strode determinedly through the mess of recruits, who were walking around in a daze. Taking up his position at the round table, he stared down the enemy that dared to antagonize him from it's seat upon his plate.

Our noble soldier was equipped with utensils which had already seen the tension of battle, but retained their glorious, gleaming silver. The soldier, like Destiny's trusted knight, had fought against and vanquished similar foes countless times. His weathered stomach growled in anticipation of his triumphant victory to come.

With a surge of courage and determination, this daring lion of the wild fell upon the enemy, tearing through it in experienced slices and stabs. The rebellious gazelle lay defeated upon the battlefield, cut off from its lust for a title far more noble than it deserved.

Victory showed itself to the honorable warrior, and it tasted sweet.

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After reading Macbeth and Antigone, I became really interested in the language of war and how it manipulates language. Specifically, the way in which it makes actions seem more important or more honorable through the way it is described. With this piece, I decided to test the extent of the language of war by describing breakfast in the dining hall. While eating breakfast isn't a very exciting or particularly honorable thing to do, I tried to manipulate the language in order to make it sound more like a battle in Macbeth. One of the things I found interesting about the language of war, which I tried to utilize in my writing, was the use of metaphors and similes. I think that similes and metaphors are important in the language of war because they give the sense that the war is something greater than what it actually is; it's the difference between saying that Macbeth was a noble warrior and that he was "like valor's minion" (Shakespeare 1.2.21).