The Ghost Road chpt 2
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- The Ghost Road chpt 2
- Rivers 3rd person narrative is unrealibale
- His memory could be shaped by what he thinks happened
- The intertextuality of 'Alice and Wonderland' could symbolise the madness of war or madness of the soliders
- "'Come on Captain McBride, drink up.' Sister Roberts said, crackling past. 'We've not got all day you know'" Page 18
- Irony at the time it was set: women are in charge of the men
- Female characters glance in and out throughout the novel
- Moffet can't move his legs: physcolognical
- Moffet tests Rivers sympathy page 20
- Had a fainting fit on the way to the front due to the noise of the guns
- Emasculated
- The method River's uses to treat Moffet links with the theme of ceremony
- "Evidently snakes had lost the right to be simply snakes" page 22
- Phalic imagery
- Snake symbolises the devil
- Freudian Theory
- Rivers is aware of the theory
- Could also symbolise masculinity
- Phalic imagery
- Rivers doesn't like Charles Dodgeson
- Might just be Barker implying that idea
- Theory Lewis Carroll was a *********
- "father caught the snake in a cleft stick and threw it far away" Page 22
- Symbolic throwing away masculinity
- "A good deal of innocence had been lost in recent years. Not all of it on battlefields" Page 23
- Social changes: Suffragettes, Labour Party in power for first time
- Page 24/25 description of Rivers actions
- Metaphor of the White Rabbit
- Rivers leads men back to war like the White Rabbit
- After youth you repeat the same pattern over and over again
- Metaphor of the White Rabbit
- Wansbeck murdered a prisoner of war
- Had no way to defend himself
- Haunted by what he's done
- What's the difference from killing an enemy soldier in battle and killing an enemy away from battle?
- The description of what he did on page 28 shows he feels no pride in what he did
- Goes against the propaganda shown to men in Britain
- Had no way to defend himself
- To write about River's past Barker is relying on hindsight
- "'How long have you suffered from homosexual impulses?' A quick casual glance, but Wansbeck couldn't disguise his anger." Page 30
- Shows how society at the time felt about sexuality
- Chapter shows how events in the present tense trigger Rivers memories of his childhood
- Rivers 3rd person narrative is unrealibale
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