Janset Tetik's Blog

In this work, I will dwell on the novel Regeneration, by Pat Barker. I will analyze the themes, characters, and the background of the historical era of this novel accordingly.  In Regeneration, by Pat Barker, we get introduced to series of events and several characters in the era World War 1. In the novel, there appears some characters that have been suffering from the effects of the war. The novel takes place in a war hospital called Craiglockhart. “There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating the brutalized, shell-shocked man.” Shell-shock is defined as being shocked, confused or anxious because of a sudden event or a difficult situation and being unable think…