Regeneration - Sassoon's entrapment

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  • Created on: 28-04-17 10:55
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  • Sassoon's entrapment
    • AO1
      • Sassoon is entrapped in Craiglockheart due to his declaration against the war; the government didn’t want to court martial him so instead they sent him to a military hospital, claiming that he is insane, tricking the medical board and his commanding officer. Here he is trapped from expressing his opinions on the war.
    • AO2
      • “Shut you up in lunatic asylum for the rest of the war” G “You can’t put people in lunatic asylums just like that. You have to have reasons.” S “They’ve got reasons” G “Yes the declaration. Well that doesn’t prove me insane.” S “And the hallucinations?” G – PAGE 7 
        • Here Graves is trying to find medical reasoning for Sassoon to go the Craiglockhart; such as the ‘Hallucinations’ which suggest a legitimate mental illness as opposed to the government labelling him as insane, due to the declaration. 
      • “Why would you need to see Mercier?” R “So they couldn’t say I’d had a relapse, if I went on with protest” S – PAGE 212
        • Here Sassoon wants to prove his sanity, so if he continued to protest against the war, he wouldn’t be sent back to Craiglockhart and entrapped once again.
    • AO3
      • Goes against the patriotic notions and behaviour on the home front, Sassoon is seen as a conchie; refusing to fight on moral grounds. Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart, if he refused, he would be imprisoned due to the conscription laws in 1916, making it illegal for men to refuse to join the army if judged fit to do so.
    • AO5
      • Sassoon starts to realise that Craiglockhart isn’t a bad place. He learns to enjoy living there which can be seen through his enjoyment of playing golf with fellow patients. However at the end of the novel, he returns back to the front line. Here he wanted to return to war, suggesting that he was not entrapped in tricky of the government, as it was Sassoon’s choice to return. “No I want to go back” - PAGE 213.

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