Ford Madox Ford’s Unusual War

In Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford approaches the experience of trauma in an unusual way—it is no longer just past experiences, but the expectancy of dismal events that become as traumatic. Ford chooses worry for such rendering. In order to make the correlation between suffering and sensibility, he places worry in the lives of his characters, which reflects on Ford’s own life. This discussion will introduce the idea that worry is going to be a major component of Ford’s psychologising of war. I explore this worry-driven sensibility and the ways it is reflected, especially in the characters’ obsession with the anticipation of death and face-forward mourning. Within this loss-filled atmosphere, worry over being killed dominates the narrative and continually feeds the sentiment of mournfulness. The Great War transforms into a Greater War, seeping into the societal realm, where it amplifies the private emotional battles of the characters, centred around worry. Consequently, the narrative highlights the coexistence of these personal and public conflicts, ultimately resulting in both physical and psychological losses throughout the story

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Modernity · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Worry · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology

• Ford Madox Ford

  Andrzej Gasiorek, Daniel Moore•Ford Madox Ford•2008

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• “Shattered Nerves”

  Janet Oppenheim•"Shattered nerves"•1991

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• Preliminary exploration of worry

  Open Access•Thomas D Borkovec, Elwood Robinson et al.•Behaviour Research and Therapy•1983

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