Paper 2 Regeneration ’ by Pat Barker is a novel focusing on Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. The novel shows the physical and mental traumas inflicted by the war on the soldiers. Apart from the main war‚ the novel also addresses the internal ’wars ’ in Britain‚ based on class‚ gender‚ father and son relationships‚ the ’sane ’ and the ’insane ’‚ the soldiers and the civilians. While men aspired to gain glory from war and become heroes‚ Regeneration effectively conveys that not
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Regeneration is a prize-winning historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker‚ first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication.[1] It is the first of three novels in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War‚ the other two being The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road‚ which won the Booker Prize in 1995.[2] The novel was adapted into a film by the same
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"Regeneration" was written by Pat Barker‚ a university-trained historian and this is confirmed by the presence of very reliable sources in the "Author’s Notes"‚ at the end of the novel. It was written the 1980’s which has enabled her to gather a lot of information about the war. Pat’s grandfather had been bayoneted during the war‚ and Pat would see his scars when he went to the sink to wash. His experiences in the war made influenced Barker’s understanding of the period‚ making the effect of the
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Justification in Regeneration In Regeneration‚ we follow the work of William Rivers‚ an army psychiatrist‚ as he tries to mend the minds of broken men. His talking therapy with various patients highlights the issues of the emotional and physical trauma caused by war‚ but especially the flawed philosophy behind the war. One patient in particular‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ causes Rivers to delve introspectively so as to carefully consider and question his own beliefs and attitudes towards the war. It is also
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Brian Tolomeo Ms. Rotchford AP Language/Composition 17 October 2012 Horrors of War Men returning from the trenches on the frontlines of WWI were the first men to truly experience the magnitude of sheer power and what destruction artillery could wreak when used in mass numbers‚ forced to sit in trenches and bunkers for hours on end while being hit by barrage after barrage of battery fire. Some of those who lived through this may have returned home much different men than when they left
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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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Horrors of War. War to me is like a never-ending plague. The reason I say this‚ is because‚ I have met lots of people‚ who went to war for the sake of defending their country. War is devastating to countries and most individuals. Men and women can be left disturbed mentally‚ physically‚ and socially for the rest of their lives. But first‚ let us look at the causes‚ they are: Culture of violence‚ Globalization‚ Use of environmental resources‚ Colonialism and neo-colonialism‚ Racial‚ ethnic‚ religious
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To all the man-made machinations‚ war is the most mischievous and dangerous. It is said‚ “Man proposes‚ God disposes.” But in case of war‚ God proposes‚ man disposes. War is not a natural calamity. Hence the entire responsibility for war falls on man. Sometimes‚ one is apt to doubt that if man is in any way different from wild animals. Ever since two men appeared on the earth‚ they have been quarrelling with each other. According to WEB Yeats‚ men fight with each other like weasels in a ditch
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difficulty of relationships within the context of war. I will be looking at Billy Prior and Sarah Lumb and exploring their relationship. I will also be looking at the difficulties of their relationship because of the war. Prior is a very complicated character. His difficult life from both home and during the war is the reason for his emotional conflict which causes him stress. He believes his duty is to serve and cries when told he won’t be returning to war‚ yet he is hesitant of admitting his fear that
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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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