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View Of Sense ofan Ending by Julian Barnes

Throughout the book, Julian Barnes gives lots of remarkable insights into the patterns of life, aging and memory. I was halfway through the book before I realized I needed to be underlining those passages so they could be found more easily.

                            I do wonder a little about what she means when she refers to “blood money.” There only interpretation I can see that makes sense is that Sarah pays Tony to compensate him for the loss of Adrian. (This definition of blood money is payment by the murderer to the victim’s kin.) There is so little to tell us about Sarah and Adrian’s relationship, but clearly there was more to it than sex. She says Adrian spoke highly of Tony. She says Adrian’s last months were happy (can this possibly be true or is this Sarah’s own version of events?). Perhaps she sees this payment as a way to wipe away her guilt and Tony as the only party remaining she can plausibly make it to. 

           My interpretation of blood money is as follows:

1) Adrian never showed Tony’s vile letter to Veronica, but keeps it in his diary

2) Veronica, on her mother’s death, comes into possession of the diary and the letter and works out that Adrian and her mother had an affair, resulting in young Adrian. She refers to Mary’s £500 bequest to Tony as ‘Blood Money’ as his letter had pushed Adrian into the arms of Mary

3) I cannot work out Mary’s gesture on Tony’s departure from Veronica’s Chiselworth home. Two thoughts come to mind.

a) it is a gesture of w@nking – Mary overheard Tony’s second night’s jerking off into the bedroom sink

        b) It is a gesture of a ‘wipe out’ or ‘wash out’. Mary had expected to seduce Adrian – something Veronica, the Father and Jack were used to – and had failed: hence the gesture of defeat.

     The equation Means b =baby or young Adrian, s = Sarah, V= Veronica, a= Adrian. b = s – v x/+ a1 means, Young Adrian, b is a result of Sarah's relationship with Adrian (x/+) with breaking relationship with Veronica(-).

a2 + v + a1 X s = b? a2 means Anthony ( Adrian used to address Tony as Anthony) It says relationship of Tony with Veronica, and her relationship with Adrian. And Adrian and Sarah's relationship multiplies b means gave birth to baby or young Adrian.

                           In short,Adrian’s strange formulas now suddenly make sense. b = s – vx + a1 or a2 + v + a1 x s = b. The first formula doesn’t involve Tony, and seems to imply little more than Sarah and Adrian together in Veronica’s absence. The second does bring Tony into the equation, which is certainly the more important of the two.

                     

It is clear in his last days Adrian was more close to Sarah, as she herself says that “Adrian was happy in his last days “it shows that Adrian was happy with Sarah, and she was with Adrian in those days. As Adrian and Sarah were in relation than it’s obvious that Sarah should have Adrian’s Diary. So until her Death Diary was in her possession and in her will she passed that Diary to Tony but Veronica was reluctant to hand it over to Tony.

                     Now, I think perhaps the reason why people are confused is because this doesn’t seem like much of a revelation. Perhaps you think you must have missed something, that a Booker-prize-winning novel must have something deeper to it than that. No, that’s it. At least, I’m pretty sure it is, unless I’m like Tony and just don’t get it at all...

                        Essentially, this novel is about remembering and the truth. There is no definitive answer as the truth changes dependent on the listener and the context. Tony believes that Adrian is Veronica’s son until he is told differently. When your read the letter, the part which tells Adrian to look to Veronica’s mother offers an explanation as to why Adrian is Sarah’s son. If you read the part which says he hopes Veronica and Adrian have a child that destroys them, it explains why Adrian committed suicide. It’s up to you which one you believe.

                        End of life with suicide here define that well sense. EM Forster tackles “muddle” and false memory extremely well in “A Passage to India” – to try to make sense of memories and the past can be profitable or delusional. As Forster famously said in “Howard’s End”, “Only connect.” The end of Barnes’ book shows us Tony trying to make sense of Adrian’s end, but also his own life as it nears its unsatisfactory ending. As a title, it seems to have so many appropriate connotations – possibly, contentiously, that Adrian’s decision to end his life makes sense.

                        If we consider Adrian who is suffering from mental trauma as Sara and Adrian’s son than veronica and Adrian are siblings .And we consider that Adrian, Toney’s friend who is suffering from mental trauma and has gone made than He can considered as step-father of Veronica.

In Last, This is book that can support multiple interpretations! 

Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

Defoe’s Life and literary Career:

•        Born in London as a son of a butcher
•        He became a hosier after schooling and traveled a lot in the Continent.
•        Being a merchant, he experienced ups and downs in his business.
•        The pamphlet Hymn to the Pillory made him a hero in 1703 and marked a turning point  in his literary care

Valuable experience to cultivate his abilities:

                   1) Loved short, crisp, plain sentences. 

                 2) Capacity for observing, grouping and memorizing details.

                 3) Skills in use of circumstantial detail.

                 4) Faculty of creative imagination.

 Plot:              

              Robinson Kreutznaer (who in England becomes known with the surname “Crusoe”) is a young man from a rich middle-class family. His main purpose is to travel by sea, but his parents disagree with Robinson because they want him to become a lawyer as his father. At first, he tries to accomplish his father’s desire, but his passion for adventures is too strong, so after having talked to him, he leaves for a little journey from York to London with a friend. During this journey, there is a little storm and Robinson is very scared about it, because he thinks that it is a sign of God’s punishment for having disobeyed to his parents’ wants. When he comes back home, he decides to ignore this little premonition and leaves again to go to Guinea, in Africa. This voyage ends again  in a disaster: his ship is attacked by Moor pirates and Robinson becomes a prisoner. One day, the pirates’ chief orders Robinson, a moor and a friend to go fishing in the sea with a little boat. When they were in the middle of the ocean, Robinson throws the moor in the water and the two men arrived on the shore. After a few days, a Portuguese ship saves them, and Robinson arrives in Brazil. There, he learns how to grow some plants, so, with the help of some natives, he sets up a plantation and becomes very rich. Unfortunately, he feels very unhappy because he wants to travel abroad again, so when the other planters invite him to go to Guinea with him, he accepts. This journey ends in a terrible shipwreck, where everyone dies except for him who, with his last efforts, swims to the nearest shore. On the following day, he realizes what has happened and  decides to fetch as many things as he can on the wreck of the ship before it sinks.

There, he takes a lot of tools and provisions that he considers useful to survive on the island, including weapons and food. At first Robinson is desperate because he knows that nobody will come and save him, but later on he realizes that his shipwreck was a sign of God’s benevolence because all the crew died apart from himself so he starts to settle down in the island as best as he can.

      Thus he decides to attack but not to kill them, because it was not his right to do that but it was God’s. Among them he saves an escaped prisoner and calls him ‘’Friday’’, after the day when he found him on the island. Robinson teaches him few English words (like “yes”, “no”, “master”) and to read the Bible. 

      Friday’s submission represents the great English Colonization because Robinson is the prototype of the English colonizer. In fact their friendship is, as a matter of fact, a master-servant relationship.

Theme : 

                    The theme is the central idea or statement about life that unifies and controls the total work.Theme is not the issue, or problem, or subject with which the work deals, but rather the comment or statement the author makes about that issue, problem, or subject.he theme may be less prominent and less fully developed in some works of fiction, such as in detective, gothic, and adventure fiction, where the author wants primarily to entertain by producing mystification, including chills and nightmare.

To Sum Up:   

Crusoe to prisoners..

•“I AM THE GOVERNOR OF THIS ISLAND”

•As the governor of this island I have power to hang you. Have you any thing to say as to why I should not?(this shows his possessive nature

•Thus he left the island on nineteenth of December in the year 1686

•The ship reached england after long voyage on the 11th June 1687

•By the grace of God I was home once more after the thirty five years.

Reference:

Nimesh Dave's Presentations ...

http://www.slideshare.net/davenimeshb/robinson-crusoes-journey

View on Play Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

       ‘ Knowledge is power, but power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’

                                  “Dr. Faustus” the tragic history of whole life and death of Dr. Faustus is written by English dramatist Christopher Marlowe. In this play there is a simply story of Dr. Faustus who was born of lower class parents , in which how a common man sells his soul to the devil for more power, knowledge and position in his life.The story base on down fall of Dr. Faustus and  Christianity.

Character :

Doctor Faustus

                        Faustus is the protagonist of the play.  He is a proud, ambitious, and self-confident man; and in the prologue, the chorus compares him to Icarus.  Like Icarus, Faustus is excessively proud and tries to exceed the human limitations. 

                      He represents the spirit of the Renaissance, with its rejection of the medieval religious viewpoint and its strong belief in the power of man and in his ability to understand the world and to change it.  Faustus has a great desire for knowledge and power.  He wants to know about the nature of the universe, about the far places of the world.  He is also a typical Renaissance man in his admiration for such Classical figures as Alexander the Great and Helen of Troy.    

                               Faustus intentionally blinds himself to the implications of his pact with Lucifer.  He ignores the injunctions of the scholars, the Good Angel, and the Old Man.  He also ignores the signs that appear to him as he was signing the contract.  However, Faustus is beset with doubts and keeps vacillating between repentance and his insistence on the pact with the devil.  His eventual fall means that man cannot ignore his limitations or ignore religion.  Faustus can be a symbol of the 

             Western civilization in its search for power and knowledge at the expense spiritual loss.        

Mephostophilis

                              He is the loyal servant and representative of Lucifer.  He successfully tempts Faustus toward damnation. He becomes Faustus’ servant and constant companion for twenty-four years, as part of the pact with the Lucifer.

                                  Mephostophilis has a personality.  He expresses the pains and sufferings of hell.  He knows the source of his misery: He has tasted the vision of God and now he is deprived of it.  He is aware of the great loss and deplores his fate. Upon Faustus' insistence to know about the nature of hell, Mephistophilis says that it is not a place, but a state of being.  Anywhere where God is not, is hell. 

                                   Paradoxically, although he tries all his best to win Faustus’ soul forever, he still reminds him that hell is real, and that he is a cautionary example: He is in hell and knows its torments.  But Faustus does not heed this example of pride and punishment.

SEVEN DEADLY SINS:

To Sum up:   
                       Conquering time, space about hell, about creation of the worlds, stars, planets, history, philosophy, religion, art, music, literature and architecture.Faustus believed, more in devil’s power than God’s power.