ENG329H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Platanus, Ian Mcewan, Metafiction
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Background about ian mcewan: prolific contemporary british writer. Following in a tradition in british writers in the sense that it looks beautiful but there is a lot of turmoil underneath the surface level of reading: keen on exploring social identity in the very english context. Symbol of his heroicness during wwi: he wanted the vase to be used, not just be a display piece. It"s supposed to get messy: nobody in the house likes the vase, the vase was broken during the tussle, briony"s rendition of this event (pg. 39-40: the thing between her sister and robbie as a tableau, unreal, maybe even a piece of art, disturbing propensity to transform the messy real into something orderly and artistic, the sequence was illogical. It shows in a very ambiguous ending: unclear if robbie and. Cecilia has survived or not: might think of it as an evasion.
