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Paths of Glory PART TWO- Answer all of these questions on your own paper.
PART ONE: Identify all of the following characters and briefly describe them.
1. 2. 3. 4. PART TWO: Identify the following. Explain its significance to the film.
4. PART THREE: Examine each of the following quotations in detail. Identify the speaker and audience, explain the situation and describe (IN DETAIL) the significance. (SIGNIFICANCE: What does it mean with respect to the rest of the film? What does it reveal about the character or characters involved? What themes are expressed or developed? Is there any irony? What is the effect of the irony? What other events does it compare or contrast with? What does it foreshadow? Etc.)
5. It's out of the question, George. Absolutely out of the question. My division was cut to pieces. What's left of it is in no position to even hold the Ant Hill, let alone take it. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. I am responsible for the lives of 8,000 men. What is my ambition against that? What is my reputation in comparison to that? My men come first of all, George. And those men know it, too…. You see, George, those men know that I would never let them down….The life of one of those soldiers means more to me than all the stars and decorations and honors in France.Nothing is beyond those men once their fighting spirit is aroused...We might just do it!6. Sergeant, I want you to arrange for the immediate transfer of this baby out of my regiment. I won't have any of our brave men contaminated by him.
7. Patriotism...is the last refuge of a scoundrel
8. Have you ever tried to bring charges against an officer? It's my word against yours, you know, and whose word do you think they're gonna believe - or, let me put it another way, whose word
do you think they're going to accept?
9. Miserable cowards, they're not advancing...they're still in the trenches! If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones!
10. Comment on the events in the movie so far. What do you think of the characters and the situation? What do you expect will happen in the second half of the film? Why?