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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feels when Madge and her lover plan on what to do on his leave. The writer cleverly uses the terms green’ and hairy’ implying Sarah was beginning to turn into a jealous monster. The writer includes these feelings again as a contradiction‚ this time between the feelings of the two girls and the rest of the men. As the reader‚ we are torn‚ not knowing whose feelings to trust and leaving us vulnerable in a way. The language the writer uses throughout most of the extract is simple and straight to the
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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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earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships‚ the pressure of possible involvement is lifted... That doesn’t work either‚ because what happens then is‚ the person you’re involved with can’t understand why you need to be friends with the person you’re just friends with. Like it means something is missing from the relationship and why do you have to go outside to get it? And when you say "No‚ no‚ no it’s not true‚ nothing is missing from the relationship‚" the person you’re involved with then
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Female vs. Male Friendships Male and female friendships are different and alike in many ways. They differ in how men and women can relate to each other both physically and emotionally. Men and women also differ in the communication aspect. In both friendships‚ there is a certain level of competitiveness‚ and the friends obviously will have the same interest in common. Friendships will differ from person to person because of the different personalities‚ but there will be the same likes and differences
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Male-Female Relationships “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation” (Gibran). Relationships are difficult to maintain when someone or something is keeping you apart. “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart‚ but somehow feeling warm inside because your close in heart” (Knudsen). Many relationships are bent or destroyed because another person‚ not involved on the relationship‚ does not want the relationship to persist. This is a physical
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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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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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