Regeneration is the story of Dr. Rivers, a psychiatrist working with the British Army, and his reflections on the patients Craiglockhart War Camp during the course of the Second World War. Rivers confronts issues ranging from class barriers within the British Army to the various psychiatric disorders developed by the patients at Craiglockhart. Over the course of the novel he is able to help many patients and reach a deeper understanding of their suffering.
Both Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen are superb at developing our sensory perception of what it feels like to be in distressing or horrifying situations Write about how this is achieved in the Sentry and the extract in Regeneration when Aldeburgh is attacked by a violent storm that drives Burns almost to suicide pages 175 180 Consider The Sight and smells Physical and mental affects on the participants that reflect the reality and their situation How do we get the sense of being there The Sentry by
A Jungian Interpretation of the Tempest Shakespeares Tempest lends itself to many different levels of meaning and interpretation The play can be seen on a realistic plane as a tale of political power and social responsibility It can be seen as allegory examining the growth of the human spirit The Tempest investigates marriage love culture It is symbolic of mans rational higher instincts verses his animal natural tendencies This is a play of repentance power revenge and fate that can also be see
King Lear In King Lear the unnatural elements seem to always dominate the natural elements throughout the play There exists a reversal of order in the play where the evil prosper in the downfall of the good and where mans life is meaningless and arbitrary King Lear the tragic hero dies in the end despite the torment and agony he had to endure to regenerate and repent But it is the worthless destruction of countless other lives because of Lears own personal tragedy that supports the view of the
The Red Convertible written by Louise Erdrich is a story about Native American culture It is written in a style that is easy to read for persons who may not be familiar to their culture Im going to examine the character of Henry Lamertine Jr Lamertine starts the story being a happy free spirited young man and through the intrusion of western ideologies and unfortunate circumstances he lost his purpose Eventually the anguish and turmoil he was suffering in his mind got the best of him and he die
There is much evidence in the play that Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and disconcert the king and his attendants His avowed intention to act strange or odd and to put an antic disposition on 1 I v 170 172 is not the only indication The latter phrase which is of doubtful interpretation should be taken in its context and in connection with his other remarks that bear on the same question To his old friend Guildenstem he intimates that his uncle father and aunt mo
Toni Morrison filled Beloved with an abundance of imagery through symbols and motifs The Novel builds on the usage of symbolism to explore the themes and perspectives of different characters Trees are frequently used and play a supporting role in Beloved In Beloved Morrison uses trees as a symbol for the theme of freedom and how freedom relates to life and death The most apparent and direct use of the symbol of trees occurs when Paul D is escaping from his imprisonment in Alfred Georgia Blossom
Biblical allusions are famous in John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath The biblical imagery that is demonstrated throughout the novel significantly enhances the meaning of the story all the way through the development of the characters and the plot These also highlight the fact that certain ideas in the Bible are still valid in our every day lives Peter Lisca has noted that the novel reflects the three part division of the Old Testament exodus account which includes captivity journey and the Prom
The first section of The Waste Land takes its title from a line in the Anglican burial service It is made up of four vignettes each seemingly from the perspective of a different speaker The first is an autobiographical snippet from the childhood of an aristocratic woman in which she recalls sledding and claims that she is German not Russian this would be important if the woman is meant to be a member of the recently defeated Austrian imperial family The woman mixes a meditation on the seasons w