Quotes Flashcards
(16 cards)
Yealland - Psychological Effects
‘You must speak, but I shall not listen to anything you have to say.’
Rivers about Sassoon
“Rivers’ knew, though he had never voiced his knowledge, that Sassoon was going back with the intention of being killed.”
Heroism
“And the Great Adventure—the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they’d devoured as boys—consisted of crouching in a dugout, waiting to be killed.”
Masculinity
“Fear, tenderness - these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man.”
Rebellion
Soldier’s Declaration
Protest
“A horse’s bit. Not an electrode, not a teaspoon. A bit. An instrument of control.” - Rivers
Masculine Adventure
‘The war that had promised so much in the way of manly activity had actually delivered female passivity.’ - Rivers
Class - Prior
“The only thing that really makes me angry is when people at home say there are no class distinction at the front.”
Mutism - Prior
‘NO MORE WORDS’
Class
‘The clubbable officer, the chap with the right accent, the right background…’ - Prior
Society - Rivers
‘A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.’
Duty
“It’s his duty to go back, and it’s my duty to see he does.”
Vulnerability
‘There’s nothing physically wrong with me, but I’m scared stiff.’ - Prior
Guilt
‘The dead leave a legacy of silence.’ - Prior
Women
“They seem to have changed so much during the war, to have expanded in all kinds of ways, whereas men over the same period had shrunk into a smaller and smaller space.” - Prior
Marriage
“In her world, men loved women as the fox loved the hare. And women loved men as a tapeworm loves the gut.”
