Regeneration By Pat Barker
(Introduction)
*shows cross country video* This looks awesome doesn't it? Glorious, majestic, something to be proud to have participated in. It looks strong and triumphant but you don't see them them literally gagging when they stop or collapsing from exhaustion. You don't smell the sweat, see the limping or see the blisters. This is what Pat Barker does that makes her anti-war argument so effective. She uses techniques of setting, characterisation, relationships between characters and their different perspectives to convey her anti-war message. She shows you the blisters.
Regeneration is based on historical facts. Barker sets her novel in Craiglockhart, a real life building located in Edinburgh, Scotland that was used as a war hospital in World War 1 (1916-1919) to treat officers suffering from various levels of war neurosis (shell shock) as well as from …show more content…
Balancing argument makes it stronger. Through Rivers, she does present a conclusion at the end of the novel "nothing justifies this." That no matter what good intentions may have been behind the war, no matter what opportunities that has come out of it, it does not make up for the casualites, the prolonged level of suffering experienced. Barker combines perspectives with her characterization of Rivers to make the conclusion stronger-
because Rivers is relatable, we can understand his thinking, his epiphany and therefore it steers us to be in agreement with him.
So let’s recap what we’ve covered so far.
Barker’s use of setting shows the consequences war has on soldiers, effects that never quite go away, which is effective as it shows us why war is horrible in the first place.
Her characterization of Prior and Sassoon causes emotional investment and forces people to care more deeply about the soldiers that suffer and actually care that war is
*shows cross country video* This looks awesome doesn't it? Glorious, majestic, something to be proud to have participated in. It looks strong and triumphant but you don't see them them literally gagging when they stop or collapsing from exhaustion. You don't smell the sweat, see the limping or see the blisters. This is what Pat Barker does that makes her anti-war argument so effective. She uses techniques of setting, characterisation, relationships between characters and their different perspectives to convey her anti-war message. She shows you the blisters.
Regeneration is based on historical facts. Barker sets her novel in Craiglockhart, a real life building located in Edinburgh, Scotland that was used as a war hospital in World War 1 (1916-1919) to treat officers suffering from various levels of war neurosis (shell shock) as well as from …show more content…
Balancing argument makes it stronger. Through Rivers, she does present a conclusion at the end of the novel "nothing justifies this." That no matter what good intentions may have been behind the war, no matter what opportunities that has come out of it, it does not make up for the casualites, the prolonged level of suffering experienced. Barker combines perspectives with her characterization of Rivers to make the conclusion stronger-
because Rivers is relatable, we can understand his thinking, his epiphany and therefore it steers us to be in agreement with him.
So let’s recap what we’ve covered so far.
Barker’s use of setting shows the consequences war has on soldiers, effects that never quite go away, which is effective as it shows us why war is horrible in the first place.
Her characterization of Prior and Sassoon causes emotional investment and forces people to care more deeply about the soldiers that suffer and actually care that war is