The English Patient Assignment
1. The English Patients obsessive love is seen when “A husband gone mad. Killing all of them. Killing himself and his wife-and him by the fact that there was now no way out of the desert. Only she was not dead. He pulled her body free, varying it out of the plane’s crumpled grip, this grip of her husband.”(137) This is clearly obsession as the EP is carrying his lovers dead body.
2. The consuming love between the EP and Katherine is evident when “On Hassanein Bey’s lawn- the grand old man of the 1923 expedition- she walked over with the government aide Roundell and shook my hand, “I want you to ravish me.” Roundell returned. It was if she handed me a knife. Within a month I was her lover. In that room over the souk, north of the street of parrots.”(236)
3. He is a man that has never even felt alone in the desert, yet he …show more content…
The English Patient and Katherine’s relationship exerts betrayal, mainly aimed towards Madox. The English Patient shows betrayal to Madox also in the sense that he supplied maps to the Germans to help Katherine. In order to help get back to her, the only way he could do this was to hand over the maps. A quote in relation to this betrayal is illustrated with “What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history-how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love.”
7. Fire and water definitely play a big role in the novel in regards to the relationships of the characters. Water is a rejuvenating and healing element and fire represents destruction as well as betrayal. The quote “The candle flickers over the page and over the young nurse’s talking face, barely revealing at this hour the trees and vista that decorate the walls. He listens to her, swallowing her words like water. “The quote represents the fire and water in the scene, as the candle fire can be seen as something that relates to Almasy’s burns and the water on the other hand relates to Hana’s nurturing of his
1. The English Patients obsessive love is seen when “A husband gone mad. Killing all of them. Killing himself and his wife-and him by the fact that there was now no way out of the desert. Only she was not dead. He pulled her body free, varying it out of the plane’s crumpled grip, this grip of her husband.”(137) This is clearly obsession as the EP is carrying his lovers dead body.
2. The consuming love between the EP and Katherine is evident when “On Hassanein Bey’s lawn- the grand old man of the 1923 expedition- she walked over with the government aide Roundell and shook my hand, “I want you to ravish me.” Roundell returned. It was if she handed me a knife. Within a month I was her lover. In that room over the souk, north of the street of parrots.”(236)
3. He is a man that has never even felt alone in the desert, yet he …show more content…
The English Patient and Katherine’s relationship exerts betrayal, mainly aimed towards Madox. The English Patient shows betrayal to Madox also in the sense that he supplied maps to the Germans to help Katherine. In order to help get back to her, the only way he could do this was to hand over the maps. A quote in relation to this betrayal is illustrated with “What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history-how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love.”
7. Fire and water definitely play a big role in the novel in regards to the relationships of the characters. Water is a rejuvenating and healing element and fire represents destruction as well as betrayal. The quote “The candle flickers over the page and over the young nurse’s talking face, barely revealing at this hour the trees and vista that decorate the walls. He listens to her, swallowing her words like water. “The quote represents the fire and water in the scene, as the candle fire can be seen as something that relates to Almasy’s burns and the water on the other hand relates to Hana’s nurturing of his