English Literature And World War I Frances Dewey

Advanced English: Literature and World War I Frances Dewey Synthesis Paper #2 March 6, 2016 Time In Regeneration and Disabled, Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen explore how war affects the individual. Barker and Owen chronicle the lives of soldiers who suffer from physical, emotional and mental trauma from the war. These two writers honest, realistic depictions of soldiers suffering reveal the incredible costs of war. Barker and Owen show how memories of the war hinder soldiers ability to live in the present and drastically transform the way they experience the world. Barker reveals how the past disrupts soldiers existence in the present. During a conversation with Rivers, Sassoon details the disturbing content of his†¦show more content†¦Sassoon s nightmares and hallucinations not only represent the violent, traumatic nature of the war experience, but also reveal how soldiers are unable to escape the horrors of war. Barker exposes how the past shapes the way soldiers experience and understand the world. During a walk on the beach, Rivers and Burns encounter the remains o f gutted fish. Burns has a troubling reaction: But Burns had stopped dead in his tracks and was staring at the heads, with his mouth working. As Rivers watched, he jerked his head back, the same movement that had been so common when he first arrived at Craiglockhart (176). At the sight of gutted fish, Burns is reminded of the horrors of war. Burns’ visceral physical reaction to the gutted fish reveals not only how much the war traumatized him, but also how much the past still rules him. Burns stops dead in his tracks with his mouth working. Burns experiences the same movement that had been so common when he first arrived at Craiglockhart. In this brief moment, Burns is suddenly pulled back to his experiences on the battlefield. Burns’ view of the world is completely changed because of his war experience; he sees the world through a different lens, one that has witnessed violence and brutality unimaginable to many. Whilst on a date with Sarah, Prior has a sad realizatio n: She belonged with the pleasure-seeking crowds. He both envied and despised her, and was quite coldly determined to get her. They owed