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‘Reality simply consists of different points of view’ - Margaret Atwood.…
‘Reality simply consists of different points of view’ - Margaret Atwood. With this statement in mind, compare and contrast the ways in which both authors present the reliability of the first person narrator in your two chosen novels. In the course of your writing, make clear how your interpretation of the texts has been influenced by other readers’ views as well as by consideration of relevant contextual factors.
Scene 1 if we were villian's- The scene where the Oliver came to understand how the ideologies of shakespeares time have intergrained themsleves with the students reality, and thus became their "new identities" . Because of this the narrator also realized the depth of the groups friendship and how it bloomed incomparison towards the end of the novel, when the friendship decayed and they fell apart after Richards death.
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The scene is significant because it show cases the classical influence upon the students lives and identities, the scene can link to the secret history because they are both heavily influenced upon their studies and build their whole social life with the central focus being literature.
The scene also links due to how the characters behave after they realise that the aethetics they have built have now became their whole life, and because of this and the crimes they have committed by living in the aethetic. They are at a chance of loosing this life now due to the facades reality, because it has seeped and became the students new identities.
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Scene 1 The secret history - The scene where the group are huddled into Henry's apartment after the death of bunny to discuss whats going to happen and face the music of their late "friends" death . Throughout this scene the personas of the group start to slip as the guilt consumes them, they are unable to be the most perfect and poised students anymore.
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This scene is significant because highlights the shift in reality for the students, now after the death they aren't these perfect students now. The guilt consumes them and they do not trust each other. This is a turning point in the novel because the reader can see the psychological turmoil each character is going through, how they realise how their pursuits can be at stake now because of their actions.
This scene is also significant because it shows the characters true nature, in a sense each character is under supervision by each other. Every reaction and thing they say is different from each other, their friendship and bond which has gradually formed based on their intellectual pursuits have now crumbled due to betrayal
This scene is also significant because it shows the characters true nature, in a sense each character is under supervision by each other. Every reaction and thing they say is different from each other, their friendship and bond which has gradually formed based on their intellectual pursuits have now crumbled due to betrayal
Scene 2 if we were villians - The scene of oliver's arrest in the prologue, within the scene oliver is being released form serving a 10 year sentence for a crime he didn't commit. The reader experiences reading about his flashbacks and the guilt/ remourse he felt.
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Both these scenes compare through the theme of guilt although the scenes vary and don't exactly mirror each other
Scene 2 the secret history - Bunny's death when the group have committed the murder and they are stomaching the consequences and guilt of the crime they have just committed. The narrator, Richard explained the phycological and emotional fallout of the death as the group desperately attempts to grasp a logistical plan.
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This scene is significant to the novel because it breaks through the beauty and aethetic of the students lives, it emphasises how the students had everything and now they have nothing. The sudden realisation that reveals their own internal battles they are facing with the loss and in many ways their own identities.
This scene links with the scene in if we were villians because they relate in the ways the students have built this life based on the beauty of their interests and aethetics, they have built their friendships around it and now they will sacrifice anything to keep that standard up and not let the facade slip. The narrators emphasise how the students have lost their true identities to an 'idea', how their makeshift reality has seeped into their real reality now they have to face the consequences.
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