Name : Umaba Gohil B Semester :4 Roll No: 16 Class: M.A. Part 2 Paper No : 13 New Literature Topic : Themes in “Sense Of Ending” Email ID : umabagohil123@gmail.com Submitted By : Smt S.B. Gardi, Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar

University, Department Of English.

Themes in “Sense of Ending” weakness of Memory

Event

Time

Memory

The central theme of the novel is weakness of memory.

Narrative also tries to give effect of fragment memory.

In the first part tony tells his story of school days , all the events are in order and narrative has particular flow

second section is much important, because there is an event happen to tony and he becomes nostalgic and narrates another event of his part.

He tries to reevaluate his past. he narrates the events of his past with different dimension and which are not so important according to his memory.

In first part the narrator tells the story of 40 years ago.

Like, his letter to Adrian And veronica , he informs when and why he wrote, which he did not narrated in first section before 40 years ago. This suggests that how memory is partial and fragmented.

“ well , in one sense, I cant know what it is that I don’t know.

That’s philosophically self evident”.

Adrian's this sentence is heart of the novel. Because of imperfection and weakness of memory.

how our partial memory mislead us!

Though the novel, writer tries to prove human memory and how it creates assumption on human mind.

Eros and Thanatos Eros and Thanaton’s frauds' theory of two

instincts. Life instinct and the death instinct. Eros= love, procreation, peace and cooperation,

god, win situation. Thanatos= Hate, murder, game playing, war, devil. Suicide of the student Robson is put appropriately.

because of having sexual relationship with girl, he has committed suicide.

‘Thanatons weans again’ Adrian spoke about robsons case. but how it will turn in reality in Adrian's life also. who is more

intelligent,mature,serious became victim of the same thing.

History

With criticizing memory, the novel also questions history.

One of the central ideas the novel pointed is unreliability of history.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. “it clearly says what we believe history as truth is unreliable.

Death Death plays a very strong defining role in the plot

of this novel. As well as being a central theme around which

much of the thought of Anthony Webster, the narrator is centered.

There are four specific deaths that each have an impact on the novel.

The death of robson and Adrian Finn center around the sub theme of the suicide and human value in life.

Existentialism With the Adrian's philosophical ideas , the novel

represents existentialist ideas. The well known ideas of Albert Camus are shown

in the novel. As Camus says, suicide was only true

philosophical question.. Adrian as existentialist , commits suicide in very

young age. Even his way of killing himself is very significant in philosophical sense .

He did not kill himself with out of mind but at very conscious mental state, he planned and performed.

Minor Themes Class conflict Meditation and ageing Memory and despair Mystery and search for solution reasons Oedipus complex Personal past

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