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Regeneration

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‘Regeneration' by Pat Barker is a novel focusing on Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. The novel shows the physical and mental traumas inflicted by the war on the soldiers. Apart from the main war, the novel also addresses the internal 'wars' in Britain, based on class, gender, father and son relationships, the 'sane' and the 'insane', the soldiers and the civilians. While men aspired to gain glory from war and become heroes, Regeneration effectively conveys that not all of war was glorious .The horrible mental and physical sicknesses, which plagued a number of soldiers, caused many men to withdraw from the battlefield. Feelings of guilt and shame haunted many of these soldiers as they found themselves removed from the heat of war. Barker discusses many issues plaguing the soldiers at the front, which gives insight into the reasons why many soldiers were getting disillusioned and turning against the war.
The war is brought to life by the flashbacks the......


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