Drew G. Faust's This Republic Of Suffering

Drew G. Faust’s This Republic of Suffering is an aspiring novel and provocative novel. Faust brings up the flip side of the American Civil War which is not mentioned very much since it can be a very touchy subject. Faust writes about the death ways of the Civil War Era. Her novel can be broken into multiple themes that cover the true meaning of the book and the meaning of war. Such themes as Dying, the work of death, killing, burying, naming, realizing, doubting, believing, accounting, surviving and numbering which conclude Faust’s read into a powerful work. Faust researched each of her points carefully in order to create the most accurate portrayal of the American Civil War. She gives a new face of to death as “killers” and survivors as “dying”. They take new identities just society at the time completely changed their identity …show more content…
The real question war has always come to the point of who should be dying and under what circumstance. These questions have truly been transformed into a new view of the civil war. Perhaps avoiding death overall by not even entering military services could have saved a soldier’s life, but in fact many innocents died. So saying soldiers could have avoided dying overall is a bit drastic to say, but death was always inevitable at any position one undertakes. Faust then goes into the role of the participants of death. Soldiers tend to take on the business end of the work of death, but during this time people were actually preparing for “The Good Death”. Men and Women were striving for this ideal afterlife, perhaps dedicating their lives to face death was something people were no too concerned about. It seems as if death was the daily preoccupation of the 19th century, each soldier had to be ready and willing to die in this war. Mental preparation and his religion pushing him forward to believe in this ideal afterlife was the central drive when working with

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