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... ” Masculinity implies that men are strong and tough, able to withstand and handle any hardship that comes their way. ... Therefore, during War, when comrades were killed in battle, the soldiers suppressed their feelings of sadness and grief trying to live up to the “masculine ideal.” When they forced themselves to not grieve over their fellow soldiers who were killed, soldiers held the pain inside and this prolonged pain may trigger the berserk state traumatizing the soldiers for the rest of their lives. ... By upholding the “masculine ideal” and suppressing their grief for dead fellow “brothers,” Vietnam War soldiers enter a berserk state that can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ... Since the soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War were all male, they were expected to encourage and maintain their masculinity no matter what happens. ... Trying to uphold the “masculine ideal,” the soldiers who survived were unable to express their grief and sorrow. Shay argues that the “communalization of grief” (Shay, pg. ... The interruption of this healing process forces the soldier to have a “rapid transformation of grief into rage. ... 54)
Shay summarizes that
“the emergence of rage out of intense grief is a biological universal and that long-term obstruction of grief and failure to communalize grief can lock a person in to chronic rage” (Shay, pg. 55)
Since rage is a “biological universal,” it is a natural process that occurs as a result of experiencing any form of grief, not necessarily that of death.
Approximate Word count = 1182
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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