Ian McEwan

Taking responsibility for ones actions is important in life. In the film Attonement created by Joe Wright and based on the book by Ian McEwan, the author introduces the Tallis family and their struggles with the aftermath of the decisions they made. Wright shows that an individual can not take responsibility for themselves until they acknowledge the consequences that resulted from taking responsibility over others. If they do not, it will cause internal guilt and confilct. When one takes…

Atonement is a novel written by Ian McEwan and first published in 2001. Atonement might be considered an historical novel since most part of the book is set in England and in France before, during and after World War II, but it is most often considered a metafiction novel. Many events of Atonement are related to events that really happened during World War II: fought between 1939 and 1945, the Second World War has been certainly the most terrible war to be fought in history and the number of…

Ian McEwan said in his essay “Defend Free Speech,” “ And you’ve come of age in a country where the enrichment of free speech in the First Amendment is not an empty phrase, as it is in many constitutions, but a living reality.” To me, it means The First Amendment…

Through the analysis, we extracted pertinent passages and discussed alternatively Briony’s internal conflicts. McEwan depicts his character Briony in a specific psychological and psychosocial milieu; these ingredients have been instrumental to our analysis, for they provided crucial data to the exploration of the character’s identity crisis. McEwan validates Erikson’s psychosocial stages of identity development, mainly the adolescent stage and the maturity stage of development…

The power of an author enables changes and drastic alterations to occur in any part of the story to any character. Ian McEwan’s Atonement portrays an author within the book that has God-like power when dictating the lives of other characters. Briony serves as the God-like author that shifts the future of Cecilia and Robbie from shattered to passionate by the movement of her fingers on a typewriter. As Briony tries to reach atonement, she creates a story she wishes were true to fulfill her…

Philosophy can be seen like a religion. There are many beliefs and theories that people hold true. However, there is no specific evidence that one theory is more likely than the others. When it comes to the dilemma of responsibility, it is up to the individual thinker to decide what they hold righteous. By incorporating ideas from hard determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism it can be established that all of these are applicable in certain situations. However, I believe we must hold…

Literary texts, although set in a particular time and place, convey ideas that are universal. In which ways, and to what extent, is this true in the work you have studied? Despite the time and place in which a novel is set, they will always convey ideas that are relatable by a wide range of readers, known as a universal theme. These are themes that many people can relate to for a number of reasons, whether it's because they include common life experiences or are simply concepts of human nature…

Nearly a decade and a half after the tragic and deadly attack of Islamic extremists of Al-Qaeda under leader Osama bin Laden known as 9/11, the effects are still felt and shown not only economically or politically, but on a deeper and more personal social level as well. The threats from ISIS have America on the brink of war yet again as the war on terror with the United States will never come to an end. Now called Patriot Day, September 11th was detrimental to the United States in many aspects…

Atonement Essay- Symbolism, narrative structure, and special effects are significant features of film. Focusing on one or more of these features, discuss the extent to which you agree with this view. Based on the novel written by Ian McEwan “Atonement”, directed by Joe Wright has four distinctly different parts. Part one is set on one glorious summer’s day in 1935. Parts Two and Three are set in overlapping times in 1940 during the war, first in France and then in London. The Coda is set in…

like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” This quotation, by Patrick Rothfuss, rings very true to the story of Atonement by Ian McEwan. In this analysis, we will explore the connections and comparisons between this quotation and the novel, and we will be able to note the links between each characters’ individual story and the quotation. Upon reading the quotation by Rothfuss…