How does Bennett deal with the theme of imprisonment in two or more of his 'talking heads'.
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Compare the presentation of changing and contrasting attitudes throughout the First World War through Sebastian Faulk's Birdsong and Poems of the Great War. At the eve of the First World War in 1914
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The poem "Futility" by Wilfred Owen deals with the speaker's desperation after the experience of death on the battlefield which leads him to question the sense of life as well as sense of creation in general.
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Manus and Owen: two contrasting fortunes. How do their attitudes and fortunes change?
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Write a critical appreciation of the passage pages 52-56 paying particular attention to Friels exploration of the importance of naming and identity.
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