characters in Birdsong‚ Regeneration and selected WWI poetry. The reality of war and the mental and physical impact on the involved characters is an important theme in WWI literature. The texts that will be considered involve Birdsong by Sabastian Faulkes‚ Regeneration by Pat Baker and selected poetry. Specific poems focus on the horrific conditions in the trench and the gruesome action soldiers had to witness; this can be associated with Birdsong which describes the accounts from soldiers and their
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Discuss how Barker presents the theme of imprisonment and feelings of ‘being trapped’ through the characters of Burns and Prior in ‘Regeneration’ Within the novel ‘Regeneration’ Pat Barker explores the theme of imprisonment and the feeling of ‘being trapped’ through the use of setting and the characters mentality. ‘Regeneration’ was written in 1991; however‚ Barker sets the novel in 1917‚ during the First World War. The setting for this novel is at Craiglockhart War hospital in Scotland and is
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stopped. Both Ma and Fred‚ it was soon learned‚ were dead” (“Barker/Karpis Gang”). Kate “Ma” Barker was the supposed leader of the Barker-Karpis gang in the 1940’s. People suspected she had led the gang for the benefit of the money they would receive from kidnappings for ransom and bank robberies. However‚ many people debate whether she led their gang. Ma‚ born on October 8‚ 1873‚ and is most known for her controversial role in the Barker-Karpis gang. At first‚ she had four sons with her husband George
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A study in to the way war affects the soldiers fighting in them in terms of mental and physical health with reference to Pat Barkers “Regeneration”‚ Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” and Penguins anthology “Poems of the Great War 1914-1918. The First World War lasted between 1914 and 1918 and saw the death of nearly twenty million people (including civilians) and the casualties were even higher. Many were left wounded for life as they lost their limbs‚ sight or mind and they would never
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development of their nation. The novel Regeneration focuses on the soldiers that have been sent to Craiglockhart‚ a mental hospital where casualties suffering from physiological disorders from the first world war have been sent. Two main characters that the book focuses on are Dr Rivers‚ a psychiatrist that helps cure the soldiers so that they can return to war and perform their duties‚ and Seigfreid Sassoon who has been sent to Craiglockhart to be ’cured from shell-shock’. In this novel‚ the reader
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Analysis of the extract from “Heartbreak House” by Bernard Shaw The text under review is the extract from the play “Heartbreak House” by B.Shaw. The author is the greatest satirical dramatist‚ who marked the beginning of a new period in the history of English drama and revolutionized English drama in content and form‚ where he exposed the vices of the society he lived in and condemned the hypocrisy of bourgeois marality. The functional style of the text can be defined as belles-lettres
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Section A: Fiction Assignment This is an extract from the‚ Midnight’s Children‚ by Salman Rushdie. In this extract‚ the protagonist‚ Saleem Sinai shares the history about his birth and the significance of why his birth is considered as a historical event. He explains how on the 15th of August 11947‚ he was born but at the very time of his entrance into the world‚ India gained its independence from the British. The rest of the extract is focused on his concerns and feelings about sharing his monumental
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Reading: Extracts from Kant’s Critique of Judgment Throughout Critique of Judgment‚ Kant (1888) analyses the four reflective judgments. These are the good‚ the agreeable‚ the beautiful and the sublime. The agreeable is a subjective‚ personal form of pleasure‚ whilst the good is an objective judgment. For Kant‚ an act is either moral or immoral‚ nothing in between. Furthermore‚ the agreeable is not a universal force‚ unlike the beautiful. Yet the sublime‚ as opposed to the beautiful‚ can not
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ABSTRACT NEW DISCOVORIES FOR THE REGENERATION OF DAMAGED NEURONS (Possible cures and relief for millions of people) Normally‚ neurons in the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) cannot regenerate injured nerve fibers‚ limiting people’s ability to recover from brain or spinal cord injuries. Repair of the central nervous system and restoration of voluntary motor activity through axonal re-growth has long been considered impossible in mammals. Over the last decade‚ numerous attempts
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Explore the psychological and moral impact of war on soldiers and civilians in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Wilfred Owen’s poetry. In the course of your writing show how your ideas have been illuminated by your response to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and other readings of both core texts. Pat Barker’s Regeneration‚ Wilfred Owen’s poetry and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 can all be categorised as subjective war texts as the main structural principle is not dominated by character’s actions‚ but rather
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