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Compare and Contrast the Relationship between Men in the Novels: ‘Birdsong’ by Sebastian Faulks and ‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker
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Compare and Contrast the Relationship between Men in the Novels: 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks and 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker 'One of the paradoxes of the War - one of the many - was that this most brutal of conflicts should set up a relationship between officers and men that was... domestic. Caring. As Layard would undoubtedly have said, maternal.' [Pat Barker: Birdsong] A commonly shared view of why soldiers were able to survive during World War 1 both mentally and physically depended exclusively on their relationships with other men. In this essay I propose to analyse these relationships from the novels 'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faulks and 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker. Pat Barker's 'Regeneration' is set at Craiglockhart and deals with the healing of psychological wounds by the main character, Rivers, of soldiers removed from war suffering from shell shock. The novel focuses on real-life events, presented through fiction. Here we see the...
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