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Gender Roles In Pat Barker's Regeneration

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Regeneration by Pat Barker takes place in the year 1917 close to the end of World War I, in a mental hospital for soldiers of war called Craiglockhart, in Scotland. Many of the soldiers struggle to come to terms with the traumas of war, and are permanently damaged or disabled physically and or mentally. Dr. Rivers is the doctor in charge of over seeing these patients to rehabilitate them from their shell shock conditions, and get them ready to get back to the trenches to begin fighting again. Although many of these men will never be the same again, their goal is to get them in and out and back to war; this becomes a main issue within the novel. Many individuals believe that this is an anti-war novel, which for the most part it is; however, there are many underlying concerns that the war brings up other than just its mission. With that being said, World War I was a time of great change in the United Kingdom, and we see it very clearly in Regeneration. …show more content…

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