The diploma paper studies the motive of World War I in the tetralogy Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford. The research focuses on how the author tried to portray the experience and the consequences of the Great War with the content and structure, as well as with the language and style. It tries to understand Ford’s success in his endeavour to become an author in the role of a historian of his own time. His inclusion of many differing opinions, perspectives and descriptions allowed him to portray the time of war in all its complexity. Despite his personal experience, he was able to compliment the enemy, to express the difference in opinion sometimes found within the lines of the allies and to harbour doubts about the leadership’s decisions, but most importantly, to successfully demonstrate the change of society which managed to make a break from the order of old to live in a world of the new.
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