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Examine and compare the ways in which Pat Barker in Regeneration and Wilfred Owen in his poetry explore the nature of life in the trenches. Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen are both successful writers in delivering an insight into trench life from the perspective of a soldier, although in different ways. Owen, being a soldier himself, has had first hand experience of trench life and describes the pity of war, in that war is a waste of young, innocent lives, and the bitterness of the soldiers

Pat Barker's Regeneration Pat Barker's Regeneration focuses on the troubled soldiers' mental status during World War One. Barker introduces the feelings soldiers had about the war and military's involvement with the war effort. While Regeneration mainly looks at the male perspective, Barker includes a small but important female presence. While Second Lieutenant Billy Prior breaks away from Craiglockhart War Hospital for an evening, he finds women at a cafe in the Edinburgh district (Barker 86)

Regeneration by Pat Barker The war in 'Regeneration' is explored 'back home'. Rather than portraying the war in terms of fighting on the frontline in the battlefields of France, Barker demonstrates the effects on the soldiers 'back home', both physically and mentally. The soldiers are those who have been injured, shell-shocked, or had a breakdown and are being treated with the intention of sending those who are able, back to France or at least resuming some kind of war duties. The war

at war. What do you see, what do you think of? From this, all we see is the physical pain. But theres more to war than meets the eye. We don’t see the mental effects war has on people, this is what I will be dicussing. The novel Regeneration by Pat Barker shows what seemingly meaningless conflict can to do regular people’s mental health. Physical trama leads to mental health problems. I will dicuss three psychological effects war has on soldiers; restriction, emasulation and alienation. RESTRICTION

disturbing experience. Memory plays a tremendous role in our lives as well as in our society. A memory can prevent us from making mistakes as well as it can haunt us to the point of breakdown. Are all memories worth to be reminded of? In Regeneration by Pat Barker as well as in The IMIGRANTS by W.G. Sebald we see a flow of narratives that underline traumatic memories. On this paper, we will focus our attention on Billy Prior, one of the characters in Regeneration, and Ambros Adelwarth of The Emigrants who

that I am analyzing speak about the idea of mental health or war trauma during World War I and World War II, instead of calling it PTSD the authors call is shell shock, which is close to the definition of PTSD. The two books that I am analyzing is Pat Barker 's Regeneration, which is focused on a mental institution and how soldiers deal with shell shock and many other internal struggles. The second is Elie Wiesel’s book Night, which speaks about a family that is taken to a concentration camp and is

Pat Barker uses language effectively in the novel “Regeneration” to present gender roles and other themes within the novel. Her presentation of women, emasculation and men taking on more feminine roles are important for the theme of gender roles within the novel. She also uses language effectively to present themes of duty and father figures. There is a very small but important female presence in “Regeneration”. The first mention of women in the novel is the Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD’s). “A

Border crossing - how human adapted to environments Texts are tools for authors to convey messages across in a coherent manner. In the novel Border Crossing, Pat Barker embedded many controversial ideas and themes, one of which is how human adapt to the environment. In the novel, the author uses contrasting characterisation and a unique novel structure: the third person narrative style to effectively deliver the theme across. Contrasting characterisation has a huge effect in the novel Border Crossing

Throughout the novel ‘Regeneration’ the author, Pat Barker, explores the depth of psychological and moral impact on men during war. The devastating memories and horrific wounds leave everlasting mental scars. Prior, a character in the book, suffers from mutism due to the trauma of his experiences with dead bodies. The poems ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Mental Cases’, both written by Wilfred Owen, not only portray the impacts of war on soldiers but also the consequential impact on civilians. At

Challenging Gender Expectations in Pat Barker’s Regeneration Siegfried Sassoon and Sarah Lumb in Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991) exemplify the bravery of those fighting against gender norms during the First World War. Sassoon proves his bravery by writing to protest the war to his military superiors and the broader public. Sarah courageously goes against her society’s and her mother’s gender norms by taking on a more masculine role. Sarah is sexually independent in her relationship with Billy Prior