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Compare and contrast the ways in which the horrors of war are presented in Regeneration by Pat Barker and Journeys end
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Compare and contrast the ways in which the horrors of war are presented in Regeneration by Pat Barker and Journeys End by R.C Sheriff. Both Regeneration and Journeys End, explore the horrors of war in similar ways and also in different ways. They both challenge assumptions about the war and the horrors the soldiers have to face. These horrors involve horrors of trench life, death of soldiers and the suffering the soldiers endured both physically and mentally. These horrors are conveyed by the use of characters that evoke flashbacks and also the mental state of the characters. Regeneration is told through Rivers who is the protagonist of the novel. Rivers is the psychiatrist at Craiglockhart which is a war hospital. Barker uses Rivers to enable the reader to gain a deeper insight into the horrors of his patients and the horrors of war. However in Journeys End this insight is achieved...
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