Enduring Love Themes

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  • Created on: 12-04-13 02:40
LOVE
What is enduring love? Dual meaning: "endure - to suffer" or "endure - to last". Parrys love endures and is endured. Juxtaposition of Clarissas sweet, tender love to Jeds obsessive, distorted fantasy.
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READING
Both Clarissa & Joe read for their jobs. However McEwan explores reading (or perspective) of the world. Joe is scientific, rational whilst Clarissa is ruled by her emotions. Parry is stuck in loves "self-referential prision", only seeing his way.
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STORYTELLING
McEwan poses the reader to understand it is just a story and Joe is the narrator, able to manipulate the story. The flawed narrative and artificiality highlights this.
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FATE VS. CHANCE
Joe vs Jed? Joe = balloon is chance and therefore struggles with the meaningless of Logans demise. Parry sees it as an opportunity to get closer to God and Joe. E.g the winds movements, science or Gods hand?
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RELIGION & BELIEF
Parrys motivating factor, presented negatively "crazy" & "obsessive". Joe turns to science and the comfort of logic when things go wrong showing a recognisation by McEwan of diversity.
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INTERTEXTUALITY
Alice in Wonderland & Keats. Reference to bring reader to reality that it is just a story like many others. Alice in Wonderland reduces the rational adults to children seeking an entertaining narrative
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GENDER ROLES
Stereotypical presentations of gender, especially through Joes perspective where he frequently asserts himself as masculine and reduces Clarissa to her feminity oir "vunreability".
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Both Clarissa & Joe read for their jobs. However McEwan explores reading (or perspective) of the world. Joe is scientific, rational whilst Clarissa is ruled by her emotions. Parry is stuck in loves "self-referential prision", only seeing his way.

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READING

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McEwan poses the reader to understand it is just a story and Joe is the narrator, able to manipulate the story. The flawed narrative and artificiality highlights this.

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Joe vs Jed? Joe = balloon is chance and therefore struggles with the meaningless of Logans demise. Parry sees it as an opportunity to get closer to God and Joe. E.g the winds movements, science or Gods hand?

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Card 5

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Parrys motivating factor, presented negatively "crazy" & "obsessive". Joe turns to science and the comfort of logic when things go wrong showing a recognisation by McEwan of diversity.

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Jessica Stolberg

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Good outline - but the spelling and grammar is appalling!

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