The Regeneration Trilogy: Difference between revisions

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* [[Eye Scream]]: One of Prior’s worst war memories is {{spoiler|of picking up one of his soldier’s eyeballs, after a bomb hits their trench and kills two men.}}

* [[Faceless Eye]]: A recurring themeas well as the [[Eye Scream]] above, the jails have a hole in the door to spy on prisoners, which Prior sees as an actual eye.

* [[The Farmer and ~~The~~ Viper]]: {{spoiler|After Prior’s “Mr. Hyde” self betrays Mac to the police, he visits Mac in jail and tells him this fable, bitterly asking how Mac and the Roper family, the farmers, could have expected anything else of Prior, the viper.}}

* [[The Farmer and the Viper]]: {{spoiler|After Prior’s “Mr. Hyde” self betrays Mac to the police, he visits Mac in jail and tells him this fable, bitterly asking how Mac and the Roper family, the farmers, could have expected anything else of Prior, the viper.}}

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Made even more difficult when the characters are questioning their own sanity.

* [[Hero Worshipper]]: Arguably how Sassoon and Owen's relationship began, although they were much closer friends than this trope usually implies. In any case, Owen's emulation of Sassoon and Sassoon's profound influence on his style are well documented in [[Real Life]]. In ''Regeneration,'' Owen, as a fan of Sassoon's poetry, asks him to sign some books; in return, Sassoon persuades Owen to show him some of his own writing, and helps him to start writing about the war.