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  1. Through a close analysis of the description of the temple, consider McEwans use of symbolic settings in Atonement.

    • Essay length: 778 words
    • Submitted: 15/10/2011

  2. "Enduring Love" Questions

    • Essay length: 1058 words
    • Submitted: 09/03/2010

  3. What are our impressions of the narrator in the opening section of

    • Essay length: 706 words
    • Submitted: 02/11/2008

  4. Obsession is a major theme in the novel Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

    • Essay length: 1227 words
    • Submitted: 13/12/2006

  5. Aim: What effect does the dual narration have upon the readers understanding of the text? Michael Frayn has a unique way of writing the Novel 'Spies'. Stephen is a character, which

    • Essay length: 963 words
    • Submitted: 31/03/2006

  6. Enduring Love - by Ian McKewen - Discuss the changing relationship between Clarissa and Joe.

    • Essay length: 2112 words
    • Submitted: 31/03/2006

  7. Explore ways McEwan presents obsession in Enduring Love

    • Essay length: 859 words
    • Submitted: 05/10/2005

  8. Evident throughout the entire plot of 'Enduring Love', Ian McEwan fuses three different genres: love story, detective story and thriller

    • Essay length: 1241 words
    • Submitted: 06/06/2005

  9. How does McEwan Present Ideas about Memory and Recall in "Enduring Love"

    • Essay length: 1670 words
    • Submitted: 06/06/2005

  10. Explore the waysin which McEwan presents obsession in Enduring Love

    • Essay length: 1127 words
    • Submitted: 04/03/2005
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Conclusion analysis

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  • Compare Virginia Woolf"s novels Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves as the representatives of her early and late work.

    "To sum up, we would like to say that in these two novels of Virginia Woolf, many similar facts as well as the different ones can be found. However, Mrs. Dalloway is easier to read; it is easier to understand. We would say that Mrs. Dalloway is the real masterpiece of Virginia Woolf. In The Waves Virginia Woolf shows us that no rules must be followed. It is pure experimental work and the reader of this novel must be more experienced."

  • Compare the two occasions on which Joe Rose and Jed Parry meet {Chap 2 and Chap 7} - What is different and what is the same? Who is in love with whom? In Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.

    "In conclusion, I have decided that the way Joe treats Jed from the beginning, being unconsciously kind, is tragic but not his fault. This kindness clearly fuelled Jed's love but Joe could not have foreseen this. In Chapter 2 there is also a sense that Joe 'loves' himself, 'I read the fractional widening of the young man's eyes as respect. It was what I felt for myself anyway', and perhaps this is what the 'timid' Jed finds so endearing about Joe to start with."

  • Enduring Love - by Ian McKewen - Discuss the changing relationship between Clarissa and Joe.

    "The relationship, in conclusion, between Joe & Clarissa changed several times. They have always been in love, and the love has never died. It was questioned by both of them when Jed became involved. The trust and communication broke down. The support, friendship and love became lost. Clarissa doubted Joe's sanity, outlook, and did not believe him. She felt he became obsessed and blocked her out, pushing her away. Joe felt Clarissa was unsupportive of the fact he was being stalked and did not listen to him and that he felt he was increasingly on his own. They went up and down a few times, down usually when Joe's obsession seemed thrown back after an incident with Joe. Once the truth came out about Jed, Clarissa needed time away from Joe properly to think and went to live with her brother. Time and distance for them worked as a healer. There was no more need to be obsessed or to doubt each other. They had never lost sight of love they learned to overcome what had happened and got back together, and continued where they had once left off. They later completed what was missing, a child, and adopted."

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