Birdsong Revision
- Created by: elenaws
- Created on: 16-06-21 17:51
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- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Memory
- Faulks -> "I felt that the experience of the war had somehow slipped from public understanding"
- Elizabeth's ignorance
- "My God, nobody told me" p.264
- Her uncovering of the past is key to the discovery of her own identity
- "Something unfufilled, something needing to be understood" p. 254
- Her uncovering of the past is key to the discovery of her own identity
- There is a link between past and present e.g undergroundp. 243
- "My God, nobody told me" p.264
- Impact of 'Shell Shock'
- Extreme generational divide - the soldiers' experiences will never be fully understood
- "soft in the head" p.401
- Extreme generational divide - the soldiers' experiences will never be fully understood
- Trauma
- Loss of faith
- "he felt something dying in him" p229
- Alcohol abuse
- Weir can only talk about the war when drunk
- "his inability to talk sensibly until the liqor had put some strength and reason into him" p285
- Alcohol seems to ease Weir's mind and disconnect his thoughts from his feelings
- "his inability to talk sensibly until the liqor had put some strength and reason into him" p285
- "There was this memory od Shaw, a painful memmory, kept in place by his sober, concious mind" p344
- Weir can only talk about the war when drunk
- Repression
- Stephen dissociates from his surroundings at the Somme
- "he could see a long wavering line of Khaki, primitive dolls" p.226
- dehumanises the soldiers to make it more bearable
- "There came a feeling that he was floating above his body" p.226
- "he could see a long wavering line of Khaki, primitive dolls" p.226
- "He did not speak for two years after the war"
- Link to Billy Prior in 'Regeneration'
- Stephen dissociates from his surroundings at the Somme
- Loss of faith
- Memory
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