Essays on Enduring Love
The character cannot be built in ease and quiet; only through experience of trial and suffering can development be achieved. Ian McEwan, the Author of the 1997 novel Enduring love, depicts the idea of character development by having the protagonist Joe Rose face adversity when his ordered life is overturned after a fatal balloon accident....
‘A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.’ – Abraham Cowley Cowley portrays all-compassing love as ‘the great pain’ when it is not required, whilst ‘The Great Gatsby’ (Fitzgerald, 1925) and Enduring Love...
“The hero of the book is condemned because he doesn’t play the game. In this sense, he is an outsider to the society in which he lives” What is your view? Do the outsiders of your chosen texts live life according to the rules? Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love Versus Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome An...
