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
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Regeneration by Pat Barker is a novel about a mental hospital for soldiers psychologically injured on the front line. It is unlike other novels and plays such as journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff which tells the story of front-line battle. The ways in which the war has had an effect on the soldiers is explored in great detail by Barker‚ perhaps to show that the effect the war has had on the characters‚ somehow has become part of their personality. A theme that Barker also explores is the theme of silence
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The extract begins with a scene of relief and joy‚ a large contradiction to how it ends where there is sadness‚ anger and fear. The writer seemed to have purposely used this contradiction as a way to contribute to the mood of the passage and of its readers; to give a sense of how easy feelings change and how our mood depends greatly on our environment. We can observe these signs of relief and joy mentioned earlier through the way the writer describes how the patients in Ward Fourteen behave. Even
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How does Barker convey Burns’ experience/regeneration in Chapter 4? The extract opens with Burns standing by the window‚ looking out on a bleak and depressing landscape‚ “sky and hills together in a wash of grey.” The pathetic fallacy reflects on Burns’ mood; downcast‚ depressed. He feels the need to escape; but is trapped. A sense of darkness and connotations of conflict seem to surround him‚ both outside‚ in the form of the stormy weather‚ and inside the hospital in the form of the crowded room
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Regeneration focuses on troubled soldiers ’ mental states during WW1. The Craiglockhart setting allows Barker to explore the psychological effects of warfare on men who went to fight and also their feelings about the war and the military ’s involvement in it. While the focus of the novel is firmly on the male perspective (indeed Barker claimed she had partly chosen this novel to prove she could ’do men as well as women ’)‚ there is a small but important female presence. When WW1 began in 1914
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How does Barker present the effects of war on men? In the novel Regeneration‚ Pat Barker examines how the war altered and affected the men involved. Throughout the book‚ she explores how the horrific experiences of the war caused breakdown and mental illness for many soldiers by including characters that display a number of different neuroses. As well as this she closely looks at relationships and how they were altered over the course of the war. The most prominent way Barker presents the effects
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Regeneration by Pat Barker is a novel placed in the midst of the first World War‚ revolving around the life of a psychiatrist‚ named Rivers‚ and the lives of his patients: soldiers who have left the war yet who have not escaped its’ horror. ‘Regeneration’ is “ the act or process of coming back‚ growing anew or a spiritual rebirth.”. Throughout “Regeneration”‚ Pat Barker reflects the title’s meaning through the themes of Duty‚ Parenthood and Mental and Physical Healing that encompass her book.
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Regeneration – Role of Women Sarah Lumb – Sarah is a completely fictional character. The girlfriend of the character Billy Prior‚ she is working-class‚ "Geordie"‚ and works in a munitions factory in Scotland producing armaments for British soldiers. Ada Lumb‚ her mother‚ appears briefly and has a very hardened attitude towards love and relationships. Sarah Lumb - The girlfriend of Billy Prior. Sarah is a young‚ working-class woman who works in a munitions factory in Scotland. Like her mother‚ she
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Suffering‚ in the novel Regeneration‚ is presented as painful and extensive inner conflict that is present in individual patients subjected to treatment in Craiglockhart. Sassoon stated‚ “It was like being 3 different people and they all wanted to go different ways”. This highlights the fact that Sassoon is at war with himself‚ as he does not know which path to take due to his mind set on different objectives. It also shows confusion and misunderstanding‚ much like a child‚ this can show demasculinisation
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Regenerating Relationships A look at character connections in Regeneration by Pat Barker Throughout Regeneration by Pat Barker there are intricate connections being made between the characters. The relationships between patients‚ doctors‚ and soldiers cross over many lines forming complicated bonds that go beyond those of friendships and father figures. The gender roles in this wartime tale do not follow normal social rules. There are strong‚ dominant females that compensate for the effeminate
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