A compare and contrast essay on the presentation of words and silence in the novels Regeneration by Pat Barker and Strange Meeting By Susan Hill.

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But after that, stayed silent." Within the first few pages Strange Meeting we experience Hilliard suffering with nightmares of his experiences in the trenches, his suffering is in silence, as he wakes, crying out from a nightmare but is worried any one may have heard him "He sat up quickly, to shut out the sound of his own heart, thumping against the pillows?" The very thought that the stereotypical soldier could be thought of as being scared certainly implies that there is something exceptionally fear-provoking about the hostilities of war that are shown in the novel...
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Whilst the novel is set in Craiglockhart we are introduced to patients attending Craiglockheart, who are gravely wounded in spirit if not body; sometimes they are tormented by their nightmares, revulsions, mutism, stammering, paralysis, especially the conscious closure of the peoples eyes on the horrors of the war...
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