Quotes Flashcards
(22 cards)
1
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Theme - women changing in war
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- ‘peace broke out. The only little bit of peace I’ve ever had…I don’t want him back’
- ‘It’s too good to last.’ women having jobs during the war
2
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Theme - outdated views of women
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- ‘Thump thump thump half the bloody night, you’d’ve thought she was coming through the wall.’
- ‘He knocks you about…and you go round apologising for it.’
- ‘You’re never gunna get engaged till you learn to keep your knees together.’
- ‘To make marriage the sole end of female existence, and yet deny that love between men and women was possible.’
- ‘It’s not just an inconvenience you’ve got in there…It’s a human being.’
3
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Theme - prior’s view of Sarah
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- ‘she belonged with the pleasure seeking crowd.’
- ‘Only Sarah connected him to the jostling crowd’
- ‘He both envied and despised her, and was quite coldly determined to get her.’
- ‘Somehow if she’d known the worst parts, she couldn’t have gone on being a haven for him.’
4
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Theme - human cost of war
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- ‘the conflict…between the duty to continue the experiment and the reluctance to cause further pain.’
5
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Theme- Rivers’ changing views on war
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6
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Theme - Sassoon’s duty to his men
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7
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Theme- Sassoon’s duty to his protest
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8
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Theme - homosexuality
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9
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Theme - male relationships
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10
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Theme - Rivers as a father figure
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11
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Theme - Yealland’s methods
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12
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Theme - regeneration and recovery
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13
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Theme - memory as trauma
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14
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Theme - memory as a therapy
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15
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Theme - class divides in war
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16
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Theme - soldiers as outsiders from society
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17
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Theme - stigma surrounding mental illness
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18
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Theme - Rivers’ sense of duty
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19
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Theme - emasculation
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20
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Uniform motif
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21
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Burns quotes
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22
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Prior’s parents
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