The Ghost Road Chapter 4
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- The Ghost Road chapter 4
- "This was pure hysteria, uncontaminated by malingering" Page 48
- Moffet doesn't want to be associated with feminine terms
- He'd much rather say he has shellshock even though he hasn't witnessed actual combat
- Moffet feels so emasculated he tries to commit suicide. Page 58
- "It's just this reminds me of seventeenth-century which-finders, you know? They used to stick pins in people too" Page 48
- Theme of ceremonies/ rituals
- Page 49 shows how Barker had tried to fictionalise a real person
- Or she's trying to show that Rivers is not a modern man of the time
- Nijiru and River's rounds as doctors juxtapose each other. Page 49
- Nijiru's rounds are much more disorganised
- Rivers rounds are organised
- Show's the difference in cultures
- River's description of school on page 50 is a metaphor for the social expectations of the time
- Page 51 shows how Nijiru treats patients
- Juxtaposes River's treatment of Moffet
- Page 33 shows ceremonial rituals in hospitals
- Page 54 Telford feels emasculated
- Shellshock
- Irony: Going to war makes you more masculine, come out of war emasculated
- Propaganda
- Page 60 shows victorian decorum
- "Will you have to tell the police" Page 61
- Context: Suicide illegal
- Old Christian ideas
- Suicide is a sin
- Old Christian ideas
- Context: Suicide illegal
- Page 62 Shows Sister Robert's dislike of the upper class who were needed to be nurses even though they weren't trained
- "This was pure hysteria, uncontaminated by malingering" Page 48
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