Regeneration quotes Flashcards
1
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Theme- women changing in war
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- “seemed to have changed so much during the war, to have expanded in all kinds of ways”
- “Peace broke out” (for Lizzie)
- “we don’t look like humans… they looked like machines whose sole function was to make other machines”
2
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Theme- outdated views of women
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- “it’s not just an inconvenience you’ve got in there… it’s a human being”
- “the women of Britain might be brought back to a proper sense of their duties”
- “Ada’s ambition was to see her daughters… on the arm of some young man with a steady income”
3
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Theme- Prior’s view of Sarah
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- “she belonged with the pleasure seeking crowd”
- “he didn’t want her to talk, he didn’t want to tell her things… not even to know her name”
4
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Theme- human costs of war
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- “every case posed implicit questions about the individual costs of war”- Rivers
- “Burns in whom a prematurely aged man and a fossilized schoolboy seemed to exist”
- “102,000 last month alone… I am obssessed. I never forget it for a second, and neither should you”- Sassoon
- “if the country demanded that price, the it should bloody well be prepared to look at the result”- Sarah
5
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Theme- Rivers’ changing views on war
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- “A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance”- Rivers
- “nothing justifies this. Nothing nothing nothing”- Rivers
- “poor little blighter he thought, poor all of them”
- “misguided the declaration might well be, but it was not deluded illogical or incoherent”
- “irony… he, someone in the business of changing people, should himself have been so changed by someone clearly unaware of having done it”
6
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Theme- Sassoon’s duty to his men
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- “the men worship him… and he loves them. Being separated from them would kill him”
- “he now feels very strongly that it is his duty to go back”
- “oh yes, I’m going back”
7
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Theme- Sassoon’s duty to his protest
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- “the inability to envisage any kind of future”
- “it was his duty to make some kind of protest”
- “happy warrior one minute. Bitter pacifist the next”
- “me trying to stop that war was a bit like trying to stop that ship”
- “you think exactly as I do about the war, and you do nothing”
- “you agreed to serve, Seigfried. Nobody’s asking you to change your views or even keep quiet about them”
- “genuine and very deep desire for death”
8
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Theme- homosexuality
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- “an enormous emphasis on love between men- comradeship- and everybody approves… is it the right kind of love”- Sassoon
- “Owen was afraid to measure his sense of loss”- Owen when Sassoon left Craiglockhart
- “homosexual even in thought”- Graves
- “my affections have been running in more normal channells”- Graves
9
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Theme- male relationships
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- “an enormous emphasis on love between men- comradeship- and everybody approves”
- “the men worship him… and he loves them. Being separated from them would kill him”
10
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Theme- Rivers as a father figure
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- “I don’t see you as a father… more a sort of male mother”- Prior
- “he was used to being adopted as a father figure”
- “I suppose most od them turn you into Daddy, don’t they”
- “joked once or twice about Rivers becoming his father confessor, but only now faced with his second abandonment, did he realise how completely Rivers had come to take his father’s place”- Sassoon
11
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Theme- Yealland’s methods
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- “the last thing these patients need is a sympathetic audience”
- “behave as becomes the hero I expect you to be”
- *“you must speak, but I shall not listen to what you have to say” *
- “obviously he and Yealland were in the business of controlling people”- Rivers
- “each of them fitten young men back into the role of warrior”-Rivers
12
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Theme- regeneration and recovery
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- “healing goes on, even if not in the expected direction”
- “In present circumstances, recovery meant the resumption of activities which were not merely self-destructive but positively suicidal”
- “the process of transformation exists almost entirely of decay”
- “you can dredge up the horrors, you can make me remember the deaths, but you will never make me feel”
- “encouraging the patient to abandon his hopeless attempts to forget”
13
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Theme- memory as trauma
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- “102,000 last week alone…I am obsessed”- Sassoon
- “no I don’t think talking helps. It just churns things up and makes them seem more real”-Prior
- “you can dredge up the horrors, you can make me remember, but you will never make me feel”- Prior
14
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Theme- memory as a therapy
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- “the process of transformation exists almost entirely of decay”- Rivers
- “simply encouraging the patient to abandon his hopeless attempts to forget”- Rivers
- “horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma”- Rivers
15
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Theme- class divides in war
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- “for the labouring classes illness has to be physical”- Rivers
- “he’d get a damn sight more sympathy from me if he had a bullet up his arse”- Mr Prior
- “did I encounter snobbery… no more than I have here”- Prior
- “people at home say there are no class distinctions at the front. Ball-ocks”- Prior
- “it helps if your shirts are the right colour”- Prior
16
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Theme- soldiers as outsiders from society
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- “he moved among them like a ghost”- Prior
- “I think the army’s probably the only place I’ve ever really belonged”- Sassoon
- “he hated everybody… only the young soldier home on leave… escaped his digust”- Sassoon
- “lonely because there was nobody left alive who’d been there”
17
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Theme- stigma surrounding mental illness
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- “he’d get a a damn sight more sypathy from me if he had a bullet up his arse”- Mr Prior
- “they didn’t believe in shell-shock at all… it was just cowardice”- Rivers
- “breakdown was nothing to be ashamed of, that horror and fear were inevitable responses to the trauma”-Rivers
18
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Theme- Rivers’ sense of duty
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- “it’s his duty to go back, and it’s my duty to see that he does- Rivers about Sassoon
- “sense of the yoke settling on his shoulders… before he was into the building”
19
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Theme- emasculation
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- “someone might find being locked up in a loony bin a fairly emasculating experience”- Anderson
- “fear, tenderness- these emotions could only be admitte to the consciousness at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man”- Rivers
- “men over the same period had shrunk into a smaller and smaller space”- Prior
