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1. How do you understand memory and history with reference to your reading of this novel.
Memory is "unreliable", History is a "lie spoken by Victors and there is always great unrest in history. This definition seems very healthy or true to life. It can be applied to everyone life. The memory which we have is all about our own thinking, it can be wrong, untruth or unreliable. We cannot come out in conclusion with our memories. When the same story of our life told by other then it will totally different then our perspective. It means memory keeps on changing based on various perspectives.
For example, Tony Webster himself not sure about his past memories. He begins the novel by stating that,
"I remember, in no particular order"
It means he is not sure about his narrative. Same is the case with the definition of History. According to Marshall's definition "there was great unrest" in history. it is truth of life that whatever we have done in our entire life, in the end result we get only unrest. The last line of novel is ended with the statement by Tony that:
"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest."
2. How do you understand the concept of suicide with reference to your reading of literature ranging from Renaissance play Hamlet, 20th century Existential Philosophy and this 21st century novel The Sense of an Ending?
The theme of suicide is common from very ancient time in Literature. but the thought behind suicide is different from time to time. Like in the play Hamlet, suicide is a sin, and those who committed suicide should not be buried with Christian traditional rule. For example, Ophelia committed suicide by drowning herself into river. In the grave digger scene there was dialogue between the two grave diggers about the suicide of Ophelia:
"First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willfully seeks her own salvation?
Second Clown: I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial....
Second clown: Will you ha'th truth on't? If this shad not been gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian burial."
But with the Renaissance period, there is great enlightenment and change in the mind of people. Now suicide is not taken in narrow boundaries of religious. Now it is right of people to commit suicide. if the life is a gift by God, then we have right to return this gift. In this novel also Adrian happily ended his life and gives philosophical meaning to his suicide.
1. How do you understand memory and history with reference to your reading of this novel.
Memory is "unreliable", History is a "lie spoken by Victors and there is always great unrest in history. This definition seems very healthy or true to life. It can be applied to everyone life. The memory which we have is all about our own thinking, it can be wrong, untruth or unreliable. We cannot come out in conclusion with our memories. When the same story of our life told by other then it will totally different then our perspective. It means memory keeps on changing based on various perspectives.
For example, Tony Webster himself not sure about his past memories. He begins the novel by stating that,
"I remember, in no particular order"
It means he is not sure about his narrative. Same is the case with the definition of History. According to Marshall's definition "there was great unrest" in history. it is truth of life that whatever we have done in our entire life, in the end result we get only unrest. The last line of novel is ended with the statement by Tony that:
"There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest."
2. How do you understand the concept of suicide with reference to your reading of literature ranging from Renaissance play Hamlet, 20th century Existential Philosophy and this 21st century novel The Sense of an Ending?
The theme of suicide is common from very ancient time in Literature. but the thought behind suicide is different from time to time. Like in the play Hamlet, suicide is a sin, and those who committed suicide should not be buried with Christian traditional rule. For example, Ophelia committed suicide by drowning herself into river. In the grave digger scene there was dialogue between the two grave diggers about the suicide of Ophelia:
"First Clown: Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she willfully seeks her own salvation?
Second Clown: I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial....
Second clown: Will you ha'th truth on't? If this shad not been gentlewoman, she should have been buried out of Christian burial."
But with the Renaissance period, there is great enlightenment and change in the mind of people. Now suicide is not taken in narrow boundaries of religious. Now it is right of people to commit suicide. if the life is a gift by God, then we have right to return this gift. In this novel also Adrian happily ended his life and gives philosophical meaning to his suicide.
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