Ian McEwans Enduring Love Essay -- Ian McEwan Enduring Love Essays

Ian McEwan's Enduring Love Evident throughout the entire plot of ‘Enduring Love’, Ian McEwan fuses three different genres: love story, detective story and thriller. Each genre I believe has a set of expectations that captures the reader urging them to read on, for example a thriller genre would stereotypically be led by a fast, tense pace with characters easily identifiable as ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’. Different, fresh and ‘novel’ McEwan establishes his break up of typical genres as he mixes the elements of the three main genres and purposely doesn’t stick to their rigid framework that many authors swear by. It is however important to assess to what extent that McEwan successfully combines these genres and how effective his method is. During the exposition of ‘Enduring Love’, McEwan attempts to â€Å"entice the reader into making that commitment† creating an â€Å"addictive quality† which I believe he does so by incorporating several stylistic devices, flowing from one to the other throughout the entire of the first chapter. Focusing particularly on the action of the event Joe is describing, McEwan incorporates parts of the romance genre and the detective story, switching from one to the other frequently. â€Å"We set off down our path arm in arm†¦the warmth and tranquillity in her voice†, Concentrating on the ‘romance’ genre, McEwan allows the reader to feel a connection with Joe as we are made aware of his emotions for Clarissa. Exploring different themes of love, we become acquainted with Clarissa’s love of Keats poetry, â€Å"Clarissa’s interest in these hypothetical letters had something to do with our own situation† and the love for others surrounding Joe at the station â€Å"it was smiles and hugs, and in thirty-five m... ...he is telling her. â€Å"Don’t get angry with me, Joe. You didn’t see his face, and he wasn’t in the square†. To conclude, I believe that it is correct to state that â€Å"Enduring Love gracefully bridges genres†, as McEwan intervenes from one genre to another successfully without a break up in the plot. The only exception of this is, I believe is the chapter in which the ‘thriller’ genre is introduced as I believe that it is out of character for Joe to go such an extreme and this is the only part of the book that I felt I was not a part of, as McEwan failed to engage me fully with the lack of realism. It could however be argued that this was McEwan’s intention to alienate this chapter to depict the message that it is possible for anyone, however radical and intelligent to take such extreme actions under the ‘given circumstances’ and the pressures that Joe faced. Ian McEwan's Enduring Love Essay -- Ian McEwan Enduring Love Essays Ian McEwan's Enduring Love Evident throughout the entire plot of ‘Enduring Love’, Ian McEwan fuses three different genres: love story, detective story and thriller. Each genre I believe has a set of expectations that captures the reader urging them to read on, for example a thriller genre would stereotypically be led by a fast, tense pace with characters easily identifiable as ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’. Different, fresh and ‘novel’ McEwan establishes his break up of typical genres as he mixes the elements of the three main genres and purposely doesn’t stick to their rigid framework that many authors swear by. It is however important to assess to what extent that McEwan successfully combines these genres and how effective his method is. During the exposition of ‘Enduring Love’, McEwan attempts to â€Å"entice the reader into making that commitment† creating an â€Å"addictive quality† which I believe he does so by incorporating several stylistic devices, flowing from one to the other throughout the entire of the first chapter. Focusing particularly on the action of the event Joe is describing, McEwan incorporates parts of the romance genre and the detective story, switching from one to the other frequently. â€Å"We set off down our path arm in arm†¦the warmth and tranquillity in her voice†, Concentrating on the ‘romance’ genre, McEwan allows the reader to feel a connection with Joe as we are made aware of his emotions for Clarissa. Exploring different themes of love, we become acquainted with Clarissa’s love of Keats poetry, â€Å"Clarissa’s interest in these hypothetical letters had something to do with our own situation† and the love for others surrounding Joe at the station â€Å"it was smiles and hugs, and in thirty-five m... ...he is telling her. â€Å"Don’t get angry with me, Joe. You didn’t see his face, and he wasn’t in the square†. To conclude, I believe that it is correct to state that â€Å"Enduring Love gracefully bridges genres†, as McEwan intervenes from one genre to another successfully without a break up in the plot. The only exception of this is, I believe is the chapter in which the ‘thriller’ genre is introduced as I believe that it is out of character for Joe to go such an extreme and this is the only part of the book that I felt I was not a part of, as McEwan failed to engage me fully with the lack of realism. It could however be argued that this was McEwan’s intention to alienate this chapter to depict the message that it is possible for anyone, however radical and intelligent to take such extreme actions under the ‘given circumstances’ and the pressures that Joe faced.