Topic:- ‘The Sense of an Ending’ Comparison Between Male Character and Female Character, and about Suicide
Department of English, MKBU
Name: Kailas Gohil
Roll No: 13
Paper No:- 13 ( The New Literature)
Introduction:-
About Writer
Julian Patrick bones is 19 January 1946, Leicester, England. He was Pen name is Dan Kavanagh. He was residence in London, England. He was a writer. His Notable awards..
- Prix Femina (1992)
- Order des Arts et des Letters (2004)
- Man Booker Prize (2011)
For his book ' The Sense of an Ending’. There of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize….
- Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
- England, England (1998)
- Arthur and George (2005).
He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. His parents were French teacher. He has said that his support for Leicester city football club. He has educated at the city of London. He was written Novels, Collection, Non- fiction, Short Story etc…..
His Novels….
1. Metroland (1980)
2. Before She Met Me (1982)
3. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
4. Staring At The Sun (1986)
5. A History of the World in10 ½ Chapters (1989)
6. Talking It Over (1991)
7. The Poreupine (1992)
8. England, England (1998)
9. Love, etc.. (2000)
10. Arthur and George (2005)
11. The Sense of an Ending (2011)
12. The Noise of Time (2016)
13. The Only Story (2018).
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About Novel:-
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by British author Julian Barnes. Narrated by a retired man named Tony Webster, the book centers around his friendship with a young man named Adrian Finn back when he was in school, and the events that eventually tore them apart. When the past catches up with Tony, he is forced to confront the paths that he and his friends have taken in life. Exploring themes such as death, regret, and reminiscence, The Sense of an Ending is noted for its unconventional narration: both parts are narrated by Tony, but they skip back and forth between Tony’s teen years with Adrian and the arrival of a mysterious document during his twilight years. The Sense of an Ending was critically acclaimed by the majority of reviewers, although some found its bleak tone off-putting.
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
.Characteristic:-
- Tony Webster
- Adrian Finn
- Robson
- Sarah Ford
- Veronica Ford
- Alex and Collins etc….
Comparison between Male character and Female Character:-
and Veronica were in love
1. Tony Webster/Veronica Ford:
Veronica was from a High-class family and Tony was from middle-class family. Because of this reason, Veronica’s father was upset with Veronica and insulted Tony a lot. After Adrian’s arrival in Veronica’s life, she broke up with Tony and started spending her life with Adrian.
After few years we can observe a vast different in the character of Veronica. First, she was a girl and after these many years, she was a woman as well as mother. She has got maturity in her life after Adrian’s suicide and her mother’s death. She has taken care of Junior Adrian and proved herself a good mother and a noble woman. She was taking care of her boy friend and her mother’s child. This is not an easy step to take in life; she has faced difficult time when she came to know that his boyfriend and his mother booth are in a relationship.
On the other hand, if we observe Tony and his behaviour he seems like the same boy he was in school. He is not able to understand anything that Veronica wants to tell you and ultimately Veronica gave up on him and told him that...
“You just don’t get it, do you? You never did, and you never will.”
Tony is not able to understand what was happening in his and Veronica’s life. He used to concern Veronica a ‘woman of Mystery’.
“Of course, at times I’d been tempted to set her down as the woman of mystery, as opposed to the woman of clarity I married in Margaret. True, I hadn’t known where I was with her, couldn’t read her heart or her mind or her motivation.”
He was also not able to understand Veronica and her desires and perhaps that can be the main reason of their break up and Veronica’s attraction towards Adrian.
If we observe Veronica’s behaviour, we can feel her hatred towards Tony. Her silence is the anger of her. There is one scene where Veronica is driving a car and Tony is sitting beside her. Tony asks questions but Veronica is preferring being silent rather than explaining everything. She wants Tony to understand everything as his own. She wants Tony to realize that what he has done indirectly. His one wrong suggestion to Adrian that he should consult Mrs. Sara Ford made Veronica and Adrian’s life a disaster. Veronica’s anger and her silence in the driving scene present her maturity.
We can observe her hatred and anger when she says,
“At least I had my seat belt on. This time Veronica’s parking technique consisted of getting both nearside wheels up on the kerb at a speed of about twenty miles an hour, then stamping on the brakes.
“Out,” she said, staring ahead.
I nodded, undid my seat belt, and slowly got out of the car. I held the door open longer than necessary, just to annoy her one last time, and said,
“You’ll ruin your tyres if you go on like that.”
The door was wrenched from my hand as she drove off.”
Veronica comes out as a noble character from the girlfriend who betrayed his boyfriend. She can be seen as a mother who sacrificed her jealousy, anger, and pain just to take care of the mentally and physically deformed child. She has not married again and sacrificed her life for her love and the child. Veronica was fighter. She fought with worse circumstances of life and Tony was a man of destiny. As per him,
“What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self rebukes never really inflicted pain?”
Adrian Finn/ Veronica Ford
Veronica broke up with Tony and started relationship with Adrian. Veronica has emerged has powerful character than Adrian. When Tony has narrated the story first, we come to know about the very powerful character of Adrian as a philosopher. He was an intelligent student with high thinking capacity. He was favourite among all teachers. We can find that by Tony’s narrative,
“Adrian Finn (22) had killed himself “while the balance of his mind was disturbed.”I remember how angry that conventional phrase made me: I would have sworn on oath that Adrian’s was the one mind which would never lose its balance.”
The reality is quite different because Adrian was not able to manage the pain which life has given him. He was a father of his girlfriend’s mother’s child, in short he had an affair with his girlfriend’s mother, and that relationship has resulted in formation of a baby. The baby was mentally and physically deformed and Adrian was not able to handle this reality and suffering of a baby. He has committed suicide with a perfect planning.
Veronica has not lost the hope. She has suffered a lot and at the end emerged as the great woman and a mother. She has not quit but she took responsibility of her brother Adrian junior.
Sara Ford/ Adrian Finn:
Sara Ford was Veronica’s mother and also a bit jealous with her. Mrs. Ford’s character seems villainous because she is jealous with Veronica and warns her boyfriends to take relationship with her. At the end, she seems more courageous because she has given a birth to Adrian’s child and she sent “Blood money” to Tony as a part of guilt.
Robson's Suicide:
Robson was a student in the same school where Adrian and Tony was studying. He has committed suicide because of her girlfriend’s pregnancy. At that time Adrian, Tony and their friends were blaming Robson for his act and considered him irresponsible. There is not any description about Robson’s girlfriend. However, we can guess that she must have survived. Robson had not the courage to take responsibility or to give a commitment of marriage. After few years, Adrian has also done the same. In the novel, these two males presented as escapists. Both have escaped from the situation (life) when they and their loved one were in trouble.
Adrian's Suicide:-
Adrian was Tony’s friend, he’s fascinated by literature and philosophy his preferred authors are Camus and Nietzsche but unlike the others.
Robson Suicide:-
Robson was Tony’s friend his school time. Once he was suicide, becouse of his girlfriend was pragnant.
Conclusion:-
‘The Sense of an Ending' Novel by Julian Barnes. Male character and Female Character comparison and Robson and Adrian Suicide is my topic. In this novel in end not any end.
Work cited:-
1. Islam KMM, Asadullah MN (2018) Gender stereotypes and education: A comparative content analysis of Malaysian, Indonesian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi school textbook
2. Ferree MM, Hall EJ. Visual images of American society: Gender and race in introductory sociology textbooks. Gender & Society.
3. http://yeshab6895.blogspot.com/2017/03/comparison-of-male-and-female.html?, From yeshabhatt blog. Thanks Ma’am……
Department of English, MKBU
Name: Kailas Gohil
Roll No: 13
Paper No:- 13 ( The New Literature)
Introduction:-
About Writer
Julian Patrick bones is 19 January 1946, Leicester, England. He was Pen name is Dan Kavanagh. He was residence in London, England. He was a writer. His Notable awards..
- Prix Femina (1992)
- Order des Arts et des Letters (2004)
- Man Booker Prize (2011)
For his book ' The Sense of an Ending’. There of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize….
- Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
- England, England (1998)
- Arthur and George (2005).
He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. His parents were French teacher. He has said that his support for Leicester city football club. He has educated at the city of London. He was written Novels, Collection, Non- fiction, Short Story etc…..
His Novels….
1. Metroland (1980)
2. Before She Met Me (1982)
3. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
4. Staring At The Sun (1986)
5. A History of the World in10 ½ Chapters (1989)
6. Talking It Over (1991)
7. The Poreupine (1992)
8. England, England (1998)
9. Love, etc.. (2000)
10. Arthur and George (2005)
11. The Sense of an Ending (2011)
12. The Noise of Time (2016)
13. The Only Story (2018).
-
About Novel:-
The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel by British author Julian Barnes. Narrated by a retired man named Tony Webster, the book centers around his friendship with a young man named Adrian Finn back when he was in school, and the events that eventually tore them apart. When the past catches up with Tony, he is forced to confront the paths that he and his friends have taken in life. Exploring themes such as death, regret, and reminiscence, The Sense of an Ending is noted for its unconventional narration: both parts are narrated by Tony, but they skip back and forth between Tony’s teen years with Adrian and the arrival of a mysterious document during his twilight years. The Sense of an Ending was critically acclaimed by the majority of reviewers, although some found its bleak tone off-putting.
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
.Characteristic:-
- Tony Webster
- Adrian Finn
- Robson
- Sarah Ford
- Veronica Ford
- Alex and Collins etc….
Comparison between Male character and Female Character:-
and Veronica were in love
1. Tony Webster/Veronica Ford:
Veronica was from a High-class family and Tony was from middle-class family. Because of this reason, Veronica’s father was upset with Veronica and insulted Tony a lot. After Adrian’s arrival in Veronica’s life, she broke up with Tony and started spending her life with Adrian.
After few years we can observe a vast different in the character of Veronica. First, she was a girl and after these many years, she was a woman as well as mother. She has got maturity in her life after Adrian’s suicide and her mother’s death. She has taken care of Junior Adrian and proved herself a good mother and a noble woman. She was taking care of her boy friend and her mother’s child. This is not an easy step to take in life; she has faced difficult time when she came to know that his boyfriend and his mother booth are in a relationship.
On the other hand, if we observe Tony and his behaviour he seems like the same boy he was in school. He is not able to understand anything that Veronica wants to tell you and ultimately Veronica gave up on him and told him that...
“You just don’t get it, do you? You never did, and you never will.”
Tony is not able to understand what was happening in his and Veronica’s life. He used to concern Veronica a ‘woman of Mystery’.
“Of course, at times I’d been tempted to set her down as the woman of mystery, as opposed to the woman of clarity I married in Margaret. True, I hadn’t known where I was with her, couldn’t read her heart or her mind or her motivation.”
He was also not able to understand Veronica and her desires and perhaps that can be the main reason of their break up and Veronica’s attraction towards Adrian.
If we observe Veronica’s behaviour, we can feel her hatred towards Tony. Her silence is the anger of her. There is one scene where Veronica is driving a car and Tony is sitting beside her. Tony asks questions but Veronica is preferring being silent rather than explaining everything. She wants Tony to understand everything as his own. She wants Tony to realize that what he has done indirectly. His one wrong suggestion to Adrian that he should consult Mrs. Sara Ford made Veronica and Adrian’s life a disaster. Veronica’s anger and her silence in the driving scene present her maturity.
We can observe her hatred and anger when she says,
“At least I had my seat belt on. This time Veronica’s parking technique consisted of getting both nearside wheels up on the kerb at a speed of about twenty miles an hour, then stamping on the brakes.
“Out,” she said, staring ahead.
I nodded, undid my seat belt, and slowly got out of the car. I held the door open longer than necessary, just to annoy her one last time, and said,
“You’ll ruin your tyres if you go on like that.”
The door was wrenched from my hand as she drove off.”
Veronica comes out as a noble character from the girlfriend who betrayed his boyfriend. She can be seen as a mother who sacrificed her jealousy, anger, and pain just to take care of the mentally and physically deformed child. She has not married again and sacrificed her life for her love and the child. Veronica was fighter. She fought with worse circumstances of life and Tony was a man of destiny. As per him,
“What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? Who had the usual ambitions and settled all too quickly for them not being realised? Who avoided being hurt and called it a capacity for survival? Who paid his bills, stayed on good terms with everyone as far as possible, for whom ecstasy and despair soon became just words once read in novels? One whose self rebukes never really inflicted pain?”
Adrian Finn/ Veronica Ford
Veronica broke up with Tony and started relationship with Adrian. Veronica has emerged has powerful character than Adrian. When Tony has narrated the story first, we come to know about the very powerful character of Adrian as a philosopher. He was an intelligent student with high thinking capacity. He was favourite among all teachers. We can find that by Tony’s narrative,
“Adrian Finn (22) had killed himself “while the balance of his mind was disturbed.”I remember how angry that conventional phrase made me: I would have sworn on oath that Adrian’s was the one mind which would never lose its balance.”
The reality is quite different because Adrian was not able to manage the pain which life has given him. He was a father of his girlfriend’s mother’s child, in short he had an affair with his girlfriend’s mother, and that relationship has resulted in formation of a baby. The baby was mentally and physically deformed and Adrian was not able to handle this reality and suffering of a baby. He has committed suicide with a perfect planning.
Veronica has not lost the hope. She has suffered a lot and at the end emerged as the great woman and a mother. She has not quit but she took responsibility of her brother Adrian junior.
Sara Ford/ Adrian Finn:
Sara Ford was Veronica’s mother and also a bit jealous with her. Mrs. Ford’s character seems villainous because she is jealous with Veronica and warns her boyfriends to take relationship with her. At the end, she seems more courageous because she has given a birth to Adrian’s child and she sent “Blood money” to Tony as a part of guilt.
Robson's Suicide:
Robson was a student in the same school where Adrian and Tony was studying. He has committed suicide because of her girlfriend’s pregnancy. At that time Adrian, Tony and their friends were blaming Robson for his act and considered him irresponsible. There is not any description about Robson’s girlfriend. However, we can guess that she must have survived. Robson had not the courage to take responsibility or to give a commitment of marriage. After few years, Adrian has also done the same. In the novel, these two males presented as escapists. Both have escaped from the situation (life) when they and their loved one were in trouble.
Adrian's Suicide:-
Adrian was Tony’s friend, he’s fascinated by literature and philosophy his preferred authors are Camus and Nietzsche but unlike the others.
Robson Suicide:-
Robson was Tony’s friend his school time. Once he was suicide, becouse of his girlfriend was pragnant.
Conclusion:-
‘The Sense of an Ending' Novel by Julian Barnes. Male character and Female Character comparison and Robson and Adrian Suicide is my topic. In this novel in end not any end.
Work cited:-
1. Islam KMM, Asadullah MN (2018) Gender stereotypes and education: A comparative content analysis of Malaysian, Indonesian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi school textbook
2. Ferree MM, Hall EJ. Visual images of American society: Gender and race in introductory sociology textbooks. Gender & Society.
3. http://yeshab6895.blogspot.com/2017/03/comparison-of-male-and-female.html?, From yeshabhatt blog. Thanks Ma’am……
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