Regeneration Key Quotes: Emasculation Flashcards
‘They’d 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.’
Chapter 5, Pg 65-66
‘that breakdown was nothing to be ashamed of, that horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma of war and were better acknowledged than suppressed… he was setting himself against the whole tenor of their upbringing.’
Chapter 5, Pg 65
‘Fear, tenderness- these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man’
Chapter 5, Pg 66
‘It is possible someone might find being locked up in a loony bin a fairly emasculating experience?’
Chapter 4, Pg 39
‘I don’t agree with the treatment’
Prior, Chapter 6, Pg 70
‘Prior seized Rivers by the arms, and began hurting him in the chest, hard enough to hurt… It was the closest Prior could come to asking for physical contact’
Chapter 9, Pg 142
‘It’s true paralysis occurs because a man wants to save his life. He doesn’t want to go forward, and take part in some hopeless attack. But neither is he prepared to run away’
Rivers to Willard, Chapter 10, Pg 152
‘He felt Willard’s fury at being stranded like this, impotent’
Chapter 10, Pg 161
‘I broke down’
Prior, Chapter 13, Pg 181
‘They’d been pushed out here to get the sun, but not right outside, and not at the front of the hospital where their mutilations might have been seen by passers-by’
Sarah, Chapter 14, Pg 214
‘fear of her looking at the empty trouser legs. Fear of her not looking at them’
Sarah, Chapter 14, Pg 214
‘“If you were a patient here, don’t you think you’d feel ashamed?”
“Probably. Because I’ve been brought up the same way as everybody else. But I hope I’d have the sense, or- whatever it is- the intelligence to see how unjustified it was.”’
Prior and Rivers, Chapter 18, Pg 279
‘He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to know and be known as deeply as possible’
Prior and Sarah, Chapter 19, Pg 288
