Ian Paisley

Omnipotence and Atonement Through Self-Reflective Narration At first glance, Atonement is a war-torn love story of two star-crossed lovers and simultaneously the life-long struggle of a girl who feels she, and her lies, are responsible for keeping the couple apart. It is not until the end of the novel that readers are told Briony Tallis, the aforementioned young troubled girl, wrote the whole novel and changed the truths about the fates of the lovers, Robbie and Cecilia. This revelation highlights

"The beginning is simple to mark". This is the opening sentence of Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love", and in this first sentence, the reader is unwittingly drawn into the novel. An introduction like this poses the question, the beginning of what? Gaining the readers curiosity and forcing them to read on. The very word "beginning" allows us an insight into the importance of this event, for the narrator must have analysed it many a time in order to find the moment in which it all began, and so

the word “clone” has become one of the most emotive of all the terms coined by scientists which have entered popular vocabulary. I shall add another, and that will be the phrase “Dolly the sheep”. The conception of Dolly, the “baby” of scientist Ian Wilmut and his team has opened the possibility of cloning humans. The mention of Dolly brings to average the person, haunting connotations of “future replicas of living megalomaniacs and the resurrected dead”. Indeed, Dolly has provided misconceptions

Determining the sanity and insanity of an individual can be extremely hard, especially when you do not know much about the person. In Shakespeare’s King Lear there are many character who seem like they are going mad, and an example of such a character is King Lear. King Lear succumbs to anger, rash decisions, and grief driving him to insanity, thus leading to the destruction of the kingdom. King Lear is a character who displays a great deal of anger throughout the course of the play, he often

Polonius, Ophelia’s father, embodies the theories the Other and a lack of female agency while discussing with Ophelia a similar case to her brother. In act 1 scene 3 of Hamlet, Polonius decides to inform Ophelia of the same matters that Laertes provides her. While Ophelia is departing from sending off her brother, Polonius asks Ophelia what her and her brother were discussing, resulting in her receiving unsolicited advice from her father on how to handle Hamlet’s sexual and romantic advances. Polonius

Misinformant and Wrongful conclusions In his essay “Who Killed Robbie and Cecilia? Reading and Misreading Ian McEwan's Atonement” Martin Jacobi argues the role of misreading in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and the consequences of misreading and reading with preconception. Misreading is the incorrect or misinterpretation of a reading. In McEwan’s Atonement misreading is a key concept that allows Ian McEwan to persuade readers into believing situations and conclusions that are not confirmed. Jacobi’s main

The creator of James Bond put a lot of not only effort into creating the character, but also a lot of his heart and soul. It could be argued that James Bond is an image creation of Ian Fleming. That Fleming created an autobiography through James Bond without actually making an autobiography. Without these elements of Fleming within Bond, it’s quite possible to say Bond and his story lines might not have been as successful as they are. One of these elements seemed to have more of an effect on not

Looks deceive, will we ever truly be able to identify the genuine from the fraudulent? “Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles and smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light” (Bradbury 135). Written in 1962, Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes is a fantasy fiction novel which depicts the mysterious experience two teenage boys encounter one October night in Green Town, Illinois. Within

think about how their actions will affect those closest to them. Briony Tallis is a prime example of this; she wants justice to be served for a story that is made up in her head and she does not realize the toll it will take on those around her. In Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Briony’s wandering imagination leads her to seek a fictional justice that causes people around her to suffer while the truth remains hidden; although she later tries to amend her wrongdoings, the damage has already been done and

We all fear something in this world, whether it’s real or imaginary. Have you ever wondered why we are so terrified of certain monsters or objects? Some adore creatures while others fear them. Horror films often analyze monsters in various ways through categorical contamination, historical or social relevance, and psychological interpretations. The beasts or location background provides tales, leaving readers with evidence. Entering Mystic Falls, a small, friendly town that has a past of mysterious