SUMMARY
Introduction
Chapters:
- Introducing “The bear came over the mountain”
- The main theme: identity
- Alice Munro’s identity
- Canadian identity
- Importance of identity in contemporary literature
Conclusion
1. Introduction
“Cogito, ergo sum” said Descartes as his conclusion in his Meditations about his methodical doubt in 1641; however, John Locke was the first to related the self to the memory, the empiricist philosopher found the identity and the self as interchangeably terms. According to Locke, “a person’s identity extends to whatever of his or her past he or she can remember” (71, …) or in other words: you do not have identity if you do not have memory; actually, Locke did not count on the immediate experience. David Hume followed this connection in the Treatise of Human Nature adding that this association enables us to associated present events to memory and rather than reproducing the memories, people reconstructed them.
Since these theories, writers tried to explain them through their books or gave them a new point of view. In one of her later collections, “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” published in 2001, Alice Munro introduced …show more content…
Then, in the present, Fiona drifts away into Alzheimer’s disease and Grant takes her to Meadowlake, a nursing home. After 30 days without visiting Fiona as Meadowlake’s policy requires, Grant comes to visit her but Fiona does not recognize him, furthermore, she has a kind of new lover: the short-term resident Aubrey. When Aubrey’s wife, Marion, carries him to their home, Fiona shrinks away and gets depressed. Grant decided to take Aubrey back to her and he talked to Marion, who finally decides to put Aubrey in Meadowlake and starts a relationship with Grant. Through the story, the narrator told us about Fiona’s and Grant’s marriage and about Grant’s affaires
Introduction
Chapters:
- Introducing “The bear came over the mountain”
- The main theme: identity
- Alice Munro’s identity
- Canadian identity
- Importance of identity in contemporary literature
Conclusion
1. Introduction
“Cogito, ergo sum” said Descartes as his conclusion in his Meditations about his methodical doubt in 1641; however, John Locke was the first to related the self to the memory, the empiricist philosopher found the identity and the self as interchangeably terms. According to Locke, “a person’s identity extends to whatever of his or her past he or she can remember” (71, …) or in other words: you do not have identity if you do not have memory; actually, Locke did not count on the immediate experience. David Hume followed this connection in the Treatise of Human Nature adding that this association enables us to associated present events to memory and rather than reproducing the memories, people reconstructed them.
Since these theories, writers tried to explain them through their books or gave them a new point of view. In one of her later collections, “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage” published in 2001, Alice Munro introduced …show more content…
Then, in the present, Fiona drifts away into Alzheimer’s disease and Grant takes her to Meadowlake, a nursing home. After 30 days without visiting Fiona as Meadowlake’s policy requires, Grant comes to visit her but Fiona does not recognize him, furthermore, she has a kind of new lover: the short-term resident Aubrey. When Aubrey’s wife, Marion, carries him to their home, Fiona shrinks away and gets depressed. Grant decided to take Aubrey back to her and he talked to Marion, who finally decides to put Aubrey in Meadowlake and starts a relationship with Grant. Through the story, the narrator told us about Fiona’s and Grant’s marriage and about Grant’s affaires