Seminar: Contact and Conflict, Love and War in Contemporary Fiction
reviewer: Dr. Geoff Parker
Essay topic:
Reasons for the failure of the protagonist´s kinship in Ian McEwan´s On Chesil Beach
Author: Sveja Hogrefe
second Semester of Culture Language - Media (MA)
Freyastraße 6, 24939 Flensburg
Sveja.hogrefe@gmx.de
Tel.: 0461-4935615
CONTENTS
1. Introduction p. 1
2. Areas of conflict amid the main characters
2.1.The impact of the cultural context and gender special(prenominal) behavior p. 2-4
2.2.McEwans treatment of love and sexuality in the novel p. 4-6
2.3.Money and the impact of class differences p. 6-7
3.Communicational problems in the relationship of the main characters
3.1. Misinterpretation of non-verbal features p. 7-8
3.2. Misunderstandings due to different moral concepts of love p. 8-9
3.3. Taboos and the unspoken p. 9-10
4.Conclusion p. 10-11
5.Bibliography p. 11
1.
Introduction
The novel On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan, is set in England it is 1962 and Florence and Edward, who are some(prenominal) 22 old age old, have just been married in Oxford. The novel starts by and by the official wedding ceremony, when they are in a hotel on Chesil Beach where they are planning to spend their wedding night. McEwans opening sentence however already foreshadows the tragic-comical events to follow : They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible In this essay I will try to elucidate the reasons wherefore the main characters relationship fails even though they continue to knowledge their love to each other. The narrator gives various reasons for their difficulties:
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