A comparison of “The Dead-Beat” and “Mental Cases” by Wilfred Owen
Thursday, March 20th, 2008“The Dead-Beat”, set in a front-line trench, and “Mental Cases”, set in a mental hospital, were both written by Wilfred Owen and describe situations involving people who have been mentally scarred by their experiences during the First World War. Pat Barker, in the novel “Regeneration”, suggests that Siegfried Sassoon aided Owen in the construction of [...]