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The English Patient - Online Term Paper

The English Patient

As followed by the big hit of Titanic’s great tragedy love story . It seems that
love romantic stories are in favour to touch people’s deep feelings.
, " however, is a great epic romance novel. It's an
extravagance of the romantic spirit, a yearning for passion. A immoral love story
between one man(Almasy) and a married woman(Katharine). Also a nurse’s love and
care toward his patient.
Style of the novel uses the in-between of past and present. Backward into
memory, forward into loss and desire, the lost of Almasy’s physical appearence, his love
and the desire to survive after he was badly burned and lost memory dued to plane crush.
And later on, how himself and others discovered his ...

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layers of mystery until all of the puzzles in the
story have been solved, and only the great wound of a doomed love remains.
attention to fragments of memory that evoke feelings even before we understand what
they mean.

Also, as its grand contrapuntal themes of fidelity and betrayal, of death and
rebirth, play themselves out, a fierce longing for a moral order emerges as well. Michael
Ondaatje's novel amasses hypnotic power and tremendous cumulative impact, suggesting,
in its resolutely nonlinear way, fragments of ecstasy and pain breaking loose from the
floor
of an ocean of memory, floating upward into recollection. It's emotion recollected not in
Wordsworth's tranquility, but in rueful, elliptical ...

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Added: 4/16/2005 12:43:12 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 330
Pages: 2

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