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Mr. Grant
ENG 4UI
Tuesday October 20 2015
War, the ultimate destroyer In the present, many wars break out constantly; Some are caused by different reasons, and others are continuations of past wars. Regardless of reason, each war provide the same results in the end: grave destruction, and the loss of many souls. In the novel Regeneration written by Pat Barker, many characters have opinions on the war that is taking place in the book, and the absurdity of war altogether. Commencing, one of the first characters that is introduced in the novel known as Sassoon is a soldier that is transferred to the Craiglockhart War Hospital for the mentally and physically ill soldiers, because he is believed to be “shell-shocked”. He believes …show more content…
Rivers finds a soldier just awaiting death patiently in a remote building, he finally begins to accept the fact that the war is damaging more than they eye can see. “Nothing justifies this. Nothing nothing nothing.” (Barker 180). The pain that the soldiers have to find a way to cope with really doesn’t have any upsides as it has stripped anything that the soldiers once stood for. Dr. Rivers senses this in his first encounter with soldier Burns, which is why he hesitates to allow Burns to relive his profoundly damaging memories from the war. Acknowledging the severity of Burns’s anguish leads Dr. Rivers to come to the same conclusion as Sassoon in that the war has inflicted too much damage mentally and physically to be considered a rightful action. This becomes conflicting for Dr. Rivers because his duty to the military is to renew the minds of the battle-scarred soldiers to be newly deployed onto the battlefield once again. Once Dr. Rivers decides for himself that the war isn’t worth fighting anymore, he no longer holds his duty to the army as important as it once was to him. The augmenting stress of this realization gravely bothers the psychologist throughout the rest of the
Mr. Grant
ENG 4UI
Tuesday October 20 2015
War, the ultimate destroyer In the present, many wars break out constantly; Some are caused by different reasons, and others are continuations of past wars. Regardless of reason, each war provide the same results in the end: grave destruction, and the loss of many souls. In the novel Regeneration written by Pat Barker, many characters have opinions on the war that is taking place in the book, and the absurdity of war altogether. Commencing, one of the first characters that is introduced in the novel known as Sassoon is a soldier that is transferred to the Craiglockhart War Hospital for the mentally and physically ill soldiers, because he is believed to be “shell-shocked”. He believes …show more content…
Rivers finds a soldier just awaiting death patiently in a remote building, he finally begins to accept the fact that the war is damaging more than they eye can see. “Nothing justifies this. Nothing nothing nothing.” (Barker 180). The pain that the soldiers have to find a way to cope with really doesn’t have any upsides as it has stripped anything that the soldiers once stood for. Dr. Rivers senses this in his first encounter with soldier Burns, which is why he hesitates to allow Burns to relive his profoundly damaging memories from the war. Acknowledging the severity of Burns’s anguish leads Dr. Rivers to come to the same conclusion as Sassoon in that the war has inflicted too much damage mentally and physically to be considered a rightful action. This becomes conflicting for Dr. Rivers because his duty to the military is to renew the minds of the battle-scarred soldiers to be newly deployed onto the battlefield once again. Once Dr. Rivers decides for himself that the war isn’t worth fighting anymore, he no longer holds his duty to the army as important as it once was to him. The augmenting stress of this realization gravely bothers the psychologist throughout the rest of the