Look again at Rivers and Sassoon's first meeting. What do we learn about Rivers and his methods, and Sassoon's state of mind?.
Right from when these two characters meet, we see their personalities and their way of thinking shine through. Sassoon is very cautious of what he says, although after getting to know Rivers a bit, expresses his more personal thoughts. Rivers immediately analyses and assesses Sassoon from the very first paragraph in their meeting. Sassoon's "pale skin, purple shadows under the eyes show "no obvious signs of nervous disorder" in Sassoon, but this immediately shows us, the reader, how Rivers is going to conduct his first interview with.
Rivers has a very friendly attitude towards Sassoon, smiling at him when he takes his first sip of tea. This is because Rivers wants Sassoon to feel relaxed and open so he will express his innermost feelings, and therefore he can pin-point Sassoon's cause of "neurosis". Sassoon is surprised by River's approach and begins to see him as an individual rather than "the doctor". For River's this allows personal views into consultation and Sassoon expresses his actual "hate" of civilians when they discuss his "after-dream hallucinations". The hallucinations that Sassoon has been having and the nightmares he had of war scenes, shows how he has obviously been affected by the war.
However even though we see Sassoon's effects from his time at the front line, he shows his sanity right from the start. He jokes sarcastically about what if "the lunatic" (himself) went missing. He has been put in Craiglockhart as a mentally ill patient, but this was only because his friend Graves, didn't want to see Sassoon get killed for his declaration. The declaration "had to be done" according to Sassoon, although both him and Rivers knew fighting a one man war against how the "great war" was being fort was "futile". Both characters know Sassoon isn't mad, and Sassoon explains how his friend, Graves, "was afraid he"d sound too sane" if Sassoon spoke to the medical bored which sent him to Craiglockhart.
The idea of madness is central to the novel, Regeneration, by Pat Barker. ... Rivers, Sassoon's psychologist, is speaking to Sassoon when he first arrives at the institute. ... From the beginning, Rivers judges him to be mad or insane. ... This is Sassoon's madness. ... As a character, he takes a step and grows into a new person. ...
Unfortunately, during World War I many men were forced to fight a different kind of war, a war that existed both on the battlefield and in their mind, which inadvertently affected the masculinity of soldiers and is well depicted in Pat Barker's novel, Regeneration. ... Pat Barker's novel Regeneration is focused on the cause, effect and treatment of shell shock therapy and how the mental disease affected the male ego during World War I. ... Many of the feelings that the soldiers could have expressed during the horrific war appear within the characters of Barker's novel. ... ...
Pat Barker is the well-known writer of the novel "Regeneration", which describes the stereotypes within society at the time of the First World War. ... Within Regeneration Barker employs irony to increase the horror of the war, which adds the feeling of sorrow for the characters. ... It appears, out of place for Sassoon to be describing war terrors over tea and sandwiches, just as it is out of place for Prior to describe the horror of walking into machine guns while he and Rivers sit safely. ... Harriett Gilbert refers to the main "core" of the book as, "the dialogue that develops between Sa...
Regeneration The authorial purpose of Pat Barker and Wilfred Owen is to present the harsh reality, of World War 1 and to shock and move us through their portrayals of the horrors at the front and their consequences. ... Barker uses the central character of senior psychiatrist Rivers through his therapy with the patients to highlight their war experiences and the horrific effects of those on them. She employs a mix of fictional and historical characters, for example Rivers and the Poets Sassoon and Owen who, suffering from shell shock were at Craiglockhart in 1916. ... Barker makes everythi...
In Pat Barker's Regeneration, emasculation is a major threat to the war officers at the Craiglockhart Hospital. ... Siegfried Sassoon was one of Rivers most important patients in the hospital. ... The fact that Sassoon is strongly attached to Rivers portrays his insecurity The relationship between Rivers and Sassoon was so close that he was able to confess his homosexuality to him. ... No wonder they broke down" (Barker 107). ... "It was nothing""(Barker 104). ...
Of Pat Barker's characters in Regeneration most had experienced the most distressing events I could ever imagine. This brings me to wonder if the characters in Barker's book did not have PTSD rather than the original diagnoses of shell shock or war neurosis that they received. I believe that the characters in Barker's book did in fact have PTSD. ... Works Cited Barker, Pat. Regeneration. ...
During that war, only young soldiers were involved in the fighting; Sassoon was one of them. As a British soldier in World War I, Sassoon well understood the military life. ... Understanding both of these meanings improves the reader's understanding of the poem and Sassoon's attitude towards the war. ... Short, direct, "Base Details" stands evidence not only to the speaker's anger of the war's commanders, but to Sassoon's as well. Although Sassoon used bullets in battle to attack the Germans, he used words to attack his own countrymen who sacrificed young liv...
Both Owen and Sassoon wrote their poems with one message and one purpose in mind. ... Through graphic imagery and dramatic language, Sassoon and Owen did exactly what they wanted to. ... This is what Sassoon felt so passionately about and wanted to stop. ... Owen uses many more literary techniques than Sassoon including alliteration and metaphors. Sassoon uses simpler rhyme schemes of rhyming couplets and Owen does not. ...
In his novel, "Regeneration", Pat Barker tells the story of a doctor in a mental hospital whose job was to cure victims of shell-shock. ... Virginia Woolf also incorporated a character named Septimus, who suffered from shell-shock, in her novel "Mrs. ... One of the few specialists that stood up for the victims was neurologist W.H.R Rivers, who experienced quite a lot of success using psychoanalysis to treat his patients. ... Poet Siegfried Sassoon, a restless, irritable risk taker who was plagued by nightmares and who recklessly denounced the war, was one of River's patients. Rivers trea...
