The Sense of an Ending.

The Sense Of an Ending

                                                                                                                                                                    The Sense of an Ending  written by Julian Barnes. Apart from this, there are two lives ending in suicide in the novel. That of Robson and Adrian. It leads into the debate on the issue of suicide – issue of eros and thanatos. 

         

.  What is the meaning of phrase ‘Blood Money’ in Veronica’s reply email?

                 The right definition of 'Blood Money' is the money of paid by the murderer to victims family as a act of penance. Veronica who sees her mom responsible for Adrian Suicide refers the money Sarah left to Tony,Adrian's Friend and most likely to be the last surviving kin of Adrian's 'Blood Money'.

.  How do you decipher the equation: b = s – v x/+ a1 or a2 + v + a1 X s = b?

        1) b= s-v x/+ a1    It means B= baby and s= Sarah, v =Veronica, a1 =Adrian. And thus baby born.  B=Baby, S= Sarah, V=Veronica, a1= Adrian.A2+ V+ a1 X S =BA2= Antony Webster, V=Veronica, A1= Adrian, S= Sarah Ford, B=Baby, a1X s= a1’s relationship with S. So it indicates that the result of baby is the relationship between Adrian with Sarah .

.  Was the mentally retarded middle aged ‘Adrian’, Tony’s friend who did not commit suicide and was suffering from trauma and thus gone mad, and was living with hidden identity?

                As in the novel so many things are not clear and it’s also a possible that Adrian was guilty of his seen had gone mad, and that’s why He was leaving a secret life with hiding his identity. And it seems more logical if we consider Tony’s narration and memory reliable because he says in second part that Adrian was the only friend of our group who has great control over his emotions and, he was practical in his life so he can not commit suicide just because that he made his girlfriend pregnant. Or there should be some other reason. 

The Da Vinci Code task

 The DA VINCI CODE

 

Here are answers to these points mentioned above;

Suspense is a feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarchy of knowledge, yet they are powerless to intervene to prevent it from happening. Films having a lot of suspense belong in the thriller genre. So, the narration of Da Vinci Code is also same as suspense thriller. 

A conspiracy theory is an explanatory proposition that accuses two or more persons, a group, or an organization of having caused or covered up, through secret planning and deliberate action, an illegal or harmful event or situation.Conspiracy theory it means: 1. plan to commit illegal act together: a secret plan or agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal or subversive act 2. making of agreement by conspirators: the making of a secret plan or agreement to commit an illegal or subversive act 3. group of conspirators: a group of people planning or agreeing in secret to commit an illegal or subversive act.

In the history of Christianity Mary Magdalene’s role is very minor we cannot find any kind of information about her that actually who is she? Means she is a prostituted, wife of Jesus or anything else. She is very silent in the history of Christianity.

The beginning of the movie and novel quit different but I thought that movie’s beginning is very effective rather than novel. In novel Brown challenge the idea of Christianity. In Christianity male is in center and power position. Women are cause of fall of male. But in the movie he shows that woman are powerful. She is not fall of male but equal and rather than equal she is powerful and power position goes to woman not male. Jesus is not virgins but a married person. He has relation with Mary Magdalene; this was truth about Jesus life which was hidden in history. Because people do not wants power is goes to woman. 

 

In the novel we can see that writer make woman in the center means hear Jesus is not center of religion of Christianity but woman May Magdalene was the center. If we compare Neuye is powerful while beginning of the novel. But when novel moves n she becomes weaker and weaker rather than powerful. So here also we can find the problem that Langdon was depend upon Neuye in the first sense of the novel but then situation was change.  

Ophelia’s character was very weak because rather than face situation she like to end her life. So according to me it was not proper way she has to face situation and fight with it. So as a woman she is failed. Elizabeth form “Frankenstein” she was not much powerful but not weak also. Because she knows very well that what she wants to do and what she wants from. She able to take decision also. Hester form “Scarlet Letter”, she is very powerful according to me. Because what is wants to do she is able to do it in case. She is able to fight with whole society also