Regeneration

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Aging
'Rivers thought how misleading it was to say that the war had ‘matured’ these young men.’ P.169 ‘a prematurely aged man and fossilised school boy seemed to exist side by side.’ P.171 (about Burns)
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Sassoon's attitude to civilians
‘The point is, you hate civilians don’t you?’ Rivers to Sassoon p. 14
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Prior's attitude to civilians
‘They owned him, something, all of them, and she should pay’–Prior p.128
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Prior's bitterness
‘He wasn’t old enough to enlist. And nobody gives a damn.’ – Prior p.69
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Prior and Sarah
‘She would never know because he would never tell her …if she knew the worst parts she couldn’t have gone on being a haven for him…He needed her ignorance to hide in.' Prior about Sarah p.216
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Sassoon's duty
‘When are you going back them again?/ Are they not still your brothers through our blood?’ Sassoon, P.189 ‘He saw them now, his little band… While he knelt to inspect their raw and blistered feet’- Sassoon about his men, P.143
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Uniform
‘It seemed to Rivers that the scything went more slowly after [the soldiers put on their uniform], and there was less laughter, which seemed a pity’ P.98
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Class
‘“Hundreds of thousands of young men have been thrown into contact with the working classes in a way they’ve never been before. That has to have some impact.” “Careful Rivers, you’re beginning to sound like a Bolshevik” ’ – p.135
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Status
‘Did Rivers know that private soldiers were on average five inches shorter that their officers?’ p.211 'How often do you see a physique like that even in the so-called upper classes? They were back to eugenics again.’ –Board member about Sassoon p.2
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Death
‘In the end I didn’t know if I was trying to kill them, or just giving them plenty of opportunities to kill me.’ Sassoon – p.11 ‘Rivers felt that there was a genuine and very deep desire for death’ P.250
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Dehumanisation
‘Figures that were no longer the size and shape of adult men.’ P.160‘A creature – it hardly resembled man’
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Burns' dehumanisation
‘Burns… on his knees hardly looked like a human being at all’ P.19
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Edwardian attitudes
‘conchies’ as well as cowards, shirkers, scrimshakers and degenerates?
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Edwardian attitudes to shells shock
they didn’t believe in shell-shock at all …it was just cowardice.’ Graves about the men on the board p.22
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Attitudes to pacifism
‘Better mad than a pacifist’– Sassoon p. 81
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Burns' father
‘He’s a great believer in the war, my father… It’s best we don’t see too much of each other at the moment. I’m not a sight for sore eyes.’ – Burns p.171
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Governmental repression
‘The casualty lists were too terrible to admit of any public debate on the continuation of the war.’ –p.211
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Emasculation
‘It is possible someone might find being locked up in a loony bin a fairly emasculating experience.’ p.29
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Men repressing
‘They had been trained to identify emotional repression, as the essence of manliness. Men who broke down, or cried, or admitted to feeling fear, were sissies, weaklings, failures. Not men.’ P.48
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Prior father
‘He’d get a dam sight more sympathy from me if he had a bullet up his ****.’ Prior’s father about Prior.
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Women regeneration
‘[Women] seemed to have changed so much during the war, to have expanded in all kinds of ways, whereas men over the same period had shrunk into a smaller and smaller space.’ P. 90
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Gender
‘He distrusted the implication that nurturing, even when done by a man, remains female, as if the ability was somehow borrowed, or even stolen from women – a sort of moral equivalent of the couvade.’ – Rivers p.107
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Comradship
‘One of the paradoxes of war – one of the many- was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between the men and the officers that was…domestic. Caring.’ – Rivers p.107
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False expectations of war
‘The war that had promised so much in the way of ‘manly’ activity had actually delivered ‘feminine’ passivity.’ P.108
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Front line at Craiglockhart
‘[Craiglockhart’s corridors are like a] trench without the sky’
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Burns' trauma
‘His mind was incapable of making comparisons, but his aching thighs remembered, and he listened for the whine of shells’-Burns P.38
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Prior's trauma
‘Without warning, Prior saw again the shovel, the sack, the scattered lime. The eyeball lay in the palm of his hand.’ P.216 (in Sarah’s room)
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Prior's father
‘He’d get a damn sight more sympathy from me if he had a bullet up his ****.’ Prior’s father
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Transferance
‘Only now faced with this second abandonment did he realize how completely Rivers had come to take his father’s place’ – Sassoon p.145
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Sacrifice
‘A crucifixion…and Abraham’s sacrifice…. The two bloody bargains on which a civilization claims to be based.’ P.149
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Burn's transferance
‘Now, waking up to find Rivers sitting by his bed, unaware of being observed, tried and patient, he realised he’d come back for this’- Burns, P.40
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Trenches
‘An extremely ridiculous event’– Prior describing going over the top p.78
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Prior's experience
‘I looked back and the ground was covered with wounded. Lying on top of each other, writhing. Like fish in a pond that’s drying out. ‘ – Prior p. 79
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Voice
‘Nothing in that devastation could’ve had a voice’– Prior recollecting his trench experiences p.102 ‘It’s like a very deep voice saying, Run along little man. Be thankful if you survive.’ – Owen p.83
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Prior immediately after his breakdown
‘He felt as if nothing could ever touch him again. When a shell whined across he didn’t flinch’ – P.103
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Restriction
‘They’d been mobilised into holes in the ground, so constricted they could hardly move.’ – Rivers p.107
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Sassoon's madness
‘In his case it was motivated less by a desire to save his own sanity [but to] convince civilians that the war was mad.’ P.26
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Sassoon exposing the war
‘I just don’t like the idea of making it out to be less of a horror than it really is.’ – Sassoon p.157
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Opposition to the war- Sarah
‘If the country demanded that price then it should bloody well be prepared to look at the result.’ – Sarah p.160
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Rivers nothing
‘Nothing justifies this. Nothing, nothing, nothing’ – Rivers p.180
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Rivers critique of society
‘A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance’ P.249
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Rivers about Sassoon
‘He wanted Sassoon to be ill. Admitting that made him pause.’- Rivers P.8
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Poetry
‘All the anger and grief now went into poetry’ p.221
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Prior's reaction to talking about trauma
‘I don’t think talking helps. It just churns things up and makes them seem more real.’ – Prior p.51
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Regeneration from trauma
‘The process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.’ P.184
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God and trauma
‘The Celestial Surgeon is at work upon humanity’ Rivers to Sassoon p.187
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Regeneration of society
‘Every time the siren goes I feel this immense sense of exhilaration…but I get this feeling that …the crust of everything is starting to crack.’ – Sarah p.164
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Abraham and Isaac
‘If you, who are young and strong, will obey me, who am old and weak, even to the extent of being prepared to sacrifice your life then in the course of time you’ll peacefully inherit, and be able to exact the same obedience from your sons.’ – p.149
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God in war
‘He wondered if this was an expression of faith, or a quest for faith, or simply an obsession with the absence of God.’ – Rivers to Burns p.181
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Burn's repression
‘He was very concerned to pretend everything was normal’ – Burns p.176
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Sassoon repression
‘Sassoon shut the lid on the memory and dived for Graves’ legs’ P.33
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Graves repressing sexuality
My affections have been running in more normal channels
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Rivers about homosexuality
But at the same time there is also this little niggle of insecurity. Is it the right kind of love?’
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Rivers questioning
‘His suffering was without purpose or dignity… [Rivers] found himself plagued by questions that… in wartime… were no use to him at all’
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Manipulation of normal things
A branch rattled along the windows with a sound like machine-gun fire
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Mutism
‘Mutism seems to spring from a conflict between wanting to say something, and knowing that if you do say it the consequences will be disastrous.’ – Rivers p.96
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Gradual build up of trauma
A break down is not a ‘reaction to a single traumatic event …it’s more a matter of erosion.’ –Rivers p.105
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Sassoon remembering injuries
‘His nocturnal visitors there had come trailing gore, pointing to amputations and head wounds, rather like the statues of medieval saints pointing to the instruments of their martyrdom.’ – Sassoon p.144
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Observation balloon pilots
floating helplessly above the battlefields, unable to either avoid attack or defend themselves effectively against it.
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Yealland's speech
steady, unrelenting projection of authority
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Yealland God-like
If Yealland had appeared authoritative before, it was nothing compared with the almost God-like tone he now assumed.
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Yealland silencing
You must speak but I shall not listen to anything you have to say
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Yealland and Rivers
He and Yealland were both in the business of controlling people. Each of them fitted young men back into the role of warrior, a role they had - however unconsciously –
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Callan
‘Nothing Callan could say could have been more powerful than his silence… Rivers had felt that he was witnessing the silencing of a human being’– p.238
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Rivers uniform
‘I wear the uniform, I take the pay, I do the job’ – Rivers p.164
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Betty's husband
'Peace broke out [when he left]….No, I don’t want him back….As far as I’m concerned the Kaiser can keep him.' – Betty p.110
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Comments

Ionie_rose

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Some of the quotes are inaccurate and the corresponding characters to the quotes are not always correct i.e. ‘He wasn’t old enough to enlist. And nobody gives a damn.’ – Prior p.69 was actually said by Sassoon. An easy mistake to make but also a crucial mistake in the exam that could cause confusion in the coherency of an essay. 

mrwb9876

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As Ionie says above. I'd be wary about using this. 

Thanks for sharing regardless. 

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