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Compare and contrast the portrayal of feelings of soldiers of the first world war, in Pat Barkers, 'The Ghost Road' and various poems from "The poems of Wilfred Owen'.
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Emma Finnegan: Center number: 20005 Candidate number: 8067 Compare and contrast the portrayal of feelings of soldiers of the first world war, in Pat Barkers, 'The Ghost Road' and various poems from "The poems of Wilfred Owen'. In both 'The Ghost Road' and 'The Poems of Wilfred Owen', one sees the brutal effects of the First World War through the experiences of those directly involved, the soldiers. They suffered immensely, from shell shock, paralysis and also loneliness and homesickness. In Pat Barkers 'The Ghost Road' she concentrates mainly on two characters experiences, whilst Wilfred Owen portrays the feelings and experiences of the soldiers as a whole. By comparing and contrasting both of these textual sources, it is the intention to discover the true effects of the war and to question how much the portrayals of the war differ. In the novel 'The ghost road' by Pat Barker, it begins with Billy Prior...
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