Modern English Literature Course, third year.
Deep deep dive in Atonement, after all the lessons mostly focusing on this book and also after watching the film.
Biography and other books overview present.
Atonement revision booklet for AQA A Level English Lit B
Zusammenfassung von Atonement und der Charaktere
To what extent do you agree with the view that Briony deserves her punishment for the crime she commits?
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PPP Ian McEwan
Biography and works.
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Biographic details.
Basic info.
Ian McEwan was born in 1948,
in Aldershot, southwest of
London, but he spent most of his
childhood abroad, at military
bases. The family’s longest
posting was in Libya, but they
also lived in Singapore and in
Germany. Ian as a child was
often wondering why his family
always lived on its own, and
remained cautiously detached
from social contacts. His father,
David, was a Scotman and a
career Army officer: he worked Ian McEwan.
long hours, and little Ian was
often alone with his mother,
Rose, a housewife. PPP
Biographic details.
Early life and family.
His parents, who both left school at McEwan's mo
fourteen, had few literary interests,married to Mr
but, he says, “The writer in me is children from
from my mother. She was a great During the Du
worrier, which requires an father remain
imagination. She was always sent home to
convinced that she left the iron on.”London, he ca
McEwan’s family p Wort and star
McEwan’s father was with her; in th
domineering and Wort was bus
temperamental, but he loved front. Ian's mo
Ian fiercely; they hunted for had a child ou
scorpions in the desert and was a Sharp, who w
daring and courageous man. He adoption in 19
easily became a model of consequences
masculinity in Ian’s eyes. They also entail. Mr. Wo
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Maturity and early fictional production.
Early adulthood and early works.
When Ian was eleven, his parents McEwan’s early pieces were .
enrolled him at an English notorious for their dark themes
boarding school, and he returned and perverse, even shocking,
to England. It was a period of material. Controversy
maturation for Ian who became surrounding the extreme subject
fond of literature and matter of the first four works,
psychology. As he enrolled at which are concerned with
the University, he had started paedophilia, murder, incest and
focussing on his two new violence, was exacerbated by
passions: reading Freud and their troubling narrative
writing fiction. Upon framework, for the way in which
graduating, he enrolled in a the reader seems to be often
master’s program in comparative drawn to share various forms of
literature, at the University of involvements with the
East Anglia, which allowed him to characters. McEwan’s
submit stories as part of his perpetrator-narrators attract us
degree. From the beginning, his into complicity with their crimes,
prose had an unnerving whereas his victims seem
discipline and strict control. strangely implicated in their own
Descriptions were precise; exploitation and destruction. This
there was no failed wordplay or becomes evident in his early
tortured metaphors; sentences production.
had a razored gleam.
McEwan’s sentences were In Between the Sheets (1978)
hypercontrolled, but his themes is a collection of three stories
were lurid, shocking, explicit, and it offers explorations of
scandalous. Because of the sado-masochistic, vicious and
disturbing subject matter of his exploitative sexual relations, His first works ar
stories, Ian McEwan was soon suggesting that these affairs obscene and scan
dubbed ''Ian Macabre'' by the show various forms of moral he changed his s
British press. What his readers contradictions for the consent
found particularly shocking in his and morbid acceptance of the
texts was his portrayal of victims. McEwan’s first
children, who were never novel, The Cement
described as little angelic, or Garden (1978), is the story of
innocent creatures, but always two siblings, protagonists of an
as wicked and perverse little incestuous relationship after
animals. Still fascinated by their parents have died.
psychology and types of
behaviour, Ian McEwan
nowadays has turned his interest
from perversity towards
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