My chosen character is a forty
two year old mother whom I have chosen to name Linda has been living in the
events of the Second World War and so far has been living in the blitzed
London. She grew up in the rather poor working class conditions and married relatively
young. She originally came from the North of England, were her father had
worked as a coal miner until he fought and died in the First World War. Thus
she has an uneasy relationship with war and the events going on around her. She
originally had worked as a nurse for several years before eventually leaving
her occupation to concentrate on looking after her children and supporting her
husband.
More recently she has been
working in a munitions factory with other women living in the local area to support
the war effort. Due to her father’s death fighting in the last Great War, she
has a strong sense of justice and fears greatly for her daughter dating a man
in the army and frequently makes passing remarks for her to end her
relationship with the young man, fearing it could only end badly. Living in
London she has a somewhat unsettled phobia of life in the city having lived
through the Blitz and hearing tales of German spies being in the area to bring
down their war effort. She is also a Christian and has trouble justifying the
war and fears for family’s safety, frequently wrestling with her own emotions
as to whether Britain’s involvement in the war has had a positive effect or
not.
Because of this she has become
paranoid amongst new people and is discomforted by their presence and finds
them suspicious. She can be quick to make accusations and saw a family nearby
be killed in the events of the Blitz just a few years prior. Thus, this is
another major cause for her paranoia. She often feels isolated in her dislike
towards the propaganda of the war and views it as the wrong approach by
glorifying such a violent mentality. Thus he holds ill feeling toward the
authority figures of the time, in particularly the government. Despite all of
her disagreements with the war she has enjoyed her renewed working life and
would be at a miss to loose her employment status. She sees this as liberation of
sorts and finds her working life very rewarding.
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