Compare and contrast the ways "Regeneration" by Pat Barker and "The Rights of Desire" by Andre Brink deal with the theme of Love

Love is the least understandable human feeling. Love appears in all kinds of forms during most novels studied in class. However love is very difficult to categorize, some correlations can be made between 'types' of love and between the characters of different novels. In "The Rights of Desire" and "Regeneration", this is the case. Admiration, sexual attraction, respect and love in the family are seen and dealt with in different ways. In "The Rights of …

…objective. Physical attraction is always presented in the novels. The attraction between different or same sexes, and the need for a sexual relation is always present. The love in the family is very different but shows the principles of supporting the loved ones. The inaccessible ones are also present in the character of Ruben or of Owen. Love is not to be characterized but it appears as an indissoluble force of union between human beings.