Essays on Biology

Both Regeneration and Private Peaceful are set in the First World War, and are strongly shaped by time and memory. Private Peaceful shadows young Private Tommo Peaceful and his older brother Charlie, and is told in a simple yet eloquent style. It follows the brothers...

A key concept to masculinity is being a strong protector, that one should protect one’s family and nation. Yet the texts, ‘Regeneration’ and ‘How Many Miles to Basra?’ present the argument that warfare promotes a distortion of masculinity; a passivity. The isolation from normal societal...

Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy is a series of novels that explore various marginalized subjects in WWI-era Britain. Originally set in a mental hospital, she is particularly interested in exploring concepts of madness – how a society decides what constitutes madness and how the mad are...