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Sense of an Ending group task
1.
2. The Sense Of An Ending
Presented By: 1 Dipti
2 Kailas
3 Prakruti
4 Rajdip
5 Ruchita
6 Urvashi
3. About Book
• Name of work : Sense of an Ending
• Type of work : Novel
• Genre : literary fiction, memory novel and psychological
thriller
• Time & place : written in 1960 Suburban London, England
• Published : 4th August 2011
• Tone of Novel : Enigmatic, mysterious and Ambiguous
• Book in past and present tense
• About a person’s memory of youth
4. About Author
• Julian Patrick Barnes
• He is an English writer
• He has also written Crime fiction pseudonym Dan Kavanagh
• Genre : Novel, short stories, essay and memoirs
• He won Man Booker Prize for The Sense Of An Ending (2011)
• Three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker prize
. Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
England, England (1998)
Arthur & George (2005)
- Costa book awards, shortlist the sense of Ending 2011
- David Cohen prize for literature
5. Character list
• Tony Webster
• Veronica Ford
• Adrian Finn
• Alex
• Colin
• Jack
• Margaret
• Sarah Ford
• Susie
6. Tony Webster
• The protagonist of the novel
• Also a narrator
• 60 year old when he is telling his story
• He is retired man and lives alone
• Tony returned to memories of forty years earlier in his
final year of secondary school
• He go Bristol university after completing school
• Veronica is his first girlfriend or relationship fails
• Marries with Margret his daughter name Susie
7. • He found lawyer letter informing him that Sarah ford has
bequeathed him £500 and two documents
• Then re-establish contact with Veronica and tries to solve
puzzles questions
• Tony still not understand her
8. Veronica Mary Elizabeth ford
• She like poetry and Classical music and refers from
dancing
• She is very complicated character in the novel
• She came from rather well - off family
• She has very close relationship with her father and Jack
rather than her mother
• Studies Spanish at Bristol university when they meet
• Very mysterious person in whole novel
• Break up with Tony and dating with Adrian
9. Continue
• The course of the novel it became clear that Veronica act
out of pain more than out of deception
• She have accepted responsibility for other people more
than anyone else particular in her close relationship to her
mentally ill half brother.
10. Adrian Finn
• Adrian joins Tony’s group
• But remain at certain distance from the other members
• Intellectual and self assured member of their group and
always thinking
• Adrian came from a dysfunctional family his mother left
his father
• Very sensitive and serious man
• He is fascinated by history , philosophy
• He preferred reading Camus and Nietzsche
• Adrian recognized by all school teacher as brilliant young
student
11. Continue
• He leaves a note address to coroner saying that it is a
thinking person’s philosophical duty to examine the nature
of his life and may then choose to renounce it
• He goes to Cambridge and then builds a relationship with
Veronica
• He is obsessed with existentialist questions of what makes
a life worth living
• Later he committed suicide and his body was found behind
locked door
• End of the novel it seems that Adrian may have done so for
more concrete reason
12. Robson
• A student in the “Science Sixth” at Tony’s school, Robson
never appears directly in the novel, but is a significant
reference point for Tony and his friends after he commits
suicide, having gotten his girlfriend pregnant. The boys
view his suicide as less a tragic event than an opportunity
for them to speculate endlessly and abstractly on his
reasons and motives. For Tony, Robson’s suicide is also a
counterpoint to Adrian’s, since he understands the latter as
admirably well-reasoned and the former as desperate and
weak: much of the novel will work to complicate and
challenge that view
13. Colin
• A school friend of Tony
• He shares his jokey, ironic attitude though coupled with
true intellectual interest
• He is fan of 19th century European author Baudelaire and
Dostoyevsky
• Colin embraces an anarchic view of the universe according
to which there is no ultimate meaning and everything left
to chaos
14. Alex
• Alex consider the philosopher among them before Adrian
the group
• He is also a friend that share the details of Adrian suicide
information with Tony
• Who was travelling around the United States when it
happened
15. Works Cited:
• Baena, Victoria. The Sense Of An Ending. 15 June 2018. web. 24
January 2020. <https://www.licharts.com/lit/the-sense-of-an-
ending>.
• Jadeja, Poojaba. "The Sense Of An Ending- Julian Barnes." The
Sense Of An Ending- Julian Barnes. 23 February 2015. web. 18
December 2019. <https://youtu.be/FqmVqvXGMmw>.
16. The sense of Ending: Theme
❑ Theme Type Word:
▪ Human Emotion
▪ Unrest
▪ Anxiety
▪ Love
▪ Death(Thanatos)
▪ Eros (Sex)
▪ Friendship
▪ Marriage
▪ Breakup
▪ Suicide
▪ Memory
▪ Time
▪ Fragmented Past
▪ Responsibility
▪ Class Conflict
▪ Self deception
▪ History of personal Past
▪ Search for real sense
▪ A journey from young to old age
▪ Revisiting to the Past
▪ Unreliability of thoughts
17. The sense of Ending: Theme
1.Inconsistencies
between shared
Histories
2.Conflict
between Eros
and Thanatos
5.Meditation
and ageing
3. Suicide 4.Existenti
alism
18. 1. Inconsistencies between shared
Histories
▪ One of the central ideas of
the novel is Unreliability
of history.
▪ “ History is that certainly
produced at the point,
where the imperfection of
memory meet the
inadequacies of
documentation”.
▪ Adrian with example of
Robson,very beautifully
describe history as
unreliable and untrue.
19. 2. Conflict between Eros and Thanatos
• Eros and Thanatos
means ‘Sex’ and ‘Death’.
• “Thanatos weans again”
Adrian spoke about
Robson’s case.
20. 3. Suicide
▪ Suicide of Adrian and
Robson in this novel.
▪ Example: Farmer, and
Young man.
21. 4. Existentialism
▪ Comes, “ There is only
one really serious
philosophical problem
and that is suicide”.
▪ Adrian as existentialist,
commits suicide at very
young age.
22. ❑I Learned this novel
▪ Comus:,
▪ “There is only one really serious philosophical
problem and that is suicide”.
24. “Past is Autobiographical Fiction Pretending to
be a Parliamentary Report.”
-Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot)
25. Index
● The Title
● Onomastics
● The diary pages
● The Equations
● Letters and E-mails
● Learning Outcome (So What?) and (What now?)
● Works Cited
26. Title
Title
● Barnes borrowed the title from Frank Kermode’s book
of the same name.
● A tale or study of reflection and reminiscence
● Jonathan Cape argues that novel is concerned with what
Kermode calls ‘problem of making sense of the way we
make sense of the world’.[1]
● The sense one gets here: There is great unrest.
● Is it really the end?
27. Onomastics
● Etymological origins of the characters’ names
● Anthony (Tony): Derived from the Latin Antonius, an
old Roman family name of unknown etymology.
“Priceless” and “of inestimable worth” are popular folk
definitions of the name[2].
● Adrian: Derived from Latin Adrianus or Hadrianus
which literally means ‘of the Adriatic’.[2]
28. ● Veronica:- Greek: Berenike - French: Veronique[2]
● The popular "Saint Veronica" (not in the Roman Martyrology)
traditionally was a pious woman who wiped the face of Christ
when he fell carrying the cross to Calvary. The image of his face
remained on the cloth, and the "veil of Veronica" has been
preserved in Rome from the 8c. Her popularity rose with the
propagation of the Stations of the Cross, and this connection led
to the folk-etymology derivation of the name from
Latin vera "true" + Greek eikon "image.“[2]
● Does the onomastic study prove anything?
29. The Diary Pages
● Mrs Sarah Ford leaves Tony Adrian’s Diary. However,
he’s never able to read it.
● How do we understand or read a diary?
● “Diaries may well give some kind of glimpse into the past,
but that glimpse, the novel suggests, will always be a
partial, biased, and even deceptive one.”[3]
30. The Equations
● b = s – v ×+ a1
● a2 + v + a1 x s = b
● The equations are Adrian’s attempts to make
sense of his situation.
● “You just don’t get it, do you? You never did,
and you never will.” – Veronica to Tony
31. Letters and Emails
● The change in communicative mediums
● Email= marker of the beginning of the digital age
● A letter and its consequences
● An e-mail and its reply
32. Learning Outcome (So What?) and
(What now?)
● The novel makes you reflect on your own life: your faults,
your words and actions
● Can we live or end life without guilt and regret?
● There can be numerous endings if we try to make sense of
how people make sense of the world.
● ‘The end of any likelihood of change’
33. Works Cited:
[1] Cape, Jonathan. The Sense Of An Ending. 8 August 2011.
web. 23 January 2020.
<https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/08/barnes-
tony-sense-life-novel>.
[2] Harper, Douglas. Adrian. 25 October 2017. web. 23
January 2020.
<https://www.etymonline.com/word/adrian>.
[3] Baena, Victoria. The Sense Of An Ending. 15 June 2018.
web. 24 January 2020. <https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-
sense-of-an-ending>
36. Character of Tony Webster and his profession
● The protagonist of The Sense of an
Ending and also its narrator
● He has several intense relationships
with women over the course of his
life
● In the novel he is retired arts
administrators and by the time
major plot begins, he is retired. But
in the movie he runs a small vintage-
camera shop.
● The film has Broadbent playing
Tony Webster, who is divorced,
runs a small vintage-camera shop,
and is melancholic, grumpy, wry.
37. Susie - Tony and Margaret’s daughter
● The Novel follows linear narrative.
For example, first school days,
Collage dyas, Marriage etc.
● In the movie, form the starting ,
Tony said that I have one
daughter.
● We also comes to know that she is
pregnant
● Susie feels comfortable with Tony
but in the novel, we can find
conflicting relationship between
Tony and Susie
38. Similar Scenes in the Novel and the Movie
● Letter from Mrs. Sarah Ford
● Adrian Planning his own suicide
● Dinner table Scene at Veronica’s House
● Meeting between Tony and Terry in the Pub
● Adrain’s description of history [ Robson’s suicide]
39. ● The major event happens in both when the
mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica,
wills him £500 and the diary of his school friend,
Adrian, who dated Veronica after they went their
separate ways. Why was Tony in her will? Why
does she have Adrian’s diary? What does the
diary say?
41. "The more you learn, the less you fear. 'learn' not in the sense of academic study, but in
the practical understanding of life."
(The sense of an ending - page 82)
"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust,embellish,make sly cuts?
And the longer life goes on,the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind
us that our life is not life,merely the story we have told about our life. Told to other, but-
mainly -to ourselves."
(The sense of an ending - Page No. 95 )
43. A critical review of Julian Barnes ‘The
Sense of an Ending
• Novel – Mysteries, memories and self-deception
• Story opens up with human struggle
• Ambiguous semantic note
• Pacy thriller
• Missed opportunities
44. Review – Memory Reconstructed
• First person narrative
• Reconunts memories of Tony Webster
• Fact and memories
• Time and self conception
• Interpretation based on Reading habits
• Unsolved or interpreted “Formula”
• At the end remain Question, doubt and regrets
• “There is accumulation”
45. The Linguistic Singularity of the Novel the Sense of an
Ending by Julian Barnes
• Novel is Bright example of Postmodernism
• Ideas about the impossibility of new style invention and the
necessity of different styles combination
• Full of different Jargon words- Chook up, Pick-up line, Pick up
girls
• Idioms – Get under skin, Put finger on
• Two levels of representing ideas- The mix of styles and the loss of
figurativeness by phraseological units
• Novel is full of references to other stories and poem
• Postmodern writers create new work through the stealing of
images and texts from an earlier period and appropriated in a
present context, say scientists.
46. Eros, Thanatos and Existential Progression in Julian
Barnes’s novel ‘The sense of an Ending’
• Modern Existentialism development
• In the novel developed theme of Existentialism
• Intertwined with the two drives- Life- instinct ‘Eros’
Death- instinct ‘Thanatos’
• Eros and Thanatos words derived from the Greek mythology
• Eros procreates love and sexual desire
• Thanatos drives a traumatic mind to death, unconscious desire of die
• Adrian Finn’s mention for both ‘Eros’ and ‘Thanatos’ – Sex and
death
47. Law, History and Literature as Narrative in
The Sense of an Ending
• Intersection of legal, literary, historical lenses of viewing narration
• Diachronic and synchronic Narratives
• Narrative Rationality
• Historiography in the classroom
• The fantasy space of the Trial
• Writing letters, writing Narrative
• Law, history, and literature are all constructs receiving social support
that provide a method for ordering the difficulties and uncertainties of
the human experience.
48. Learning Outcome
● “The more you learn, the less you fear. ‘Learn’ not in
the sense of academic study, but in the practical
understanding of life.”
● Instant decision and regret of anything
● “There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And
beyond these there is unrest. There is great unrest.”
49. Kirpichnikova, Anna. "The Linguistic Singularity of the Novel the Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes."
The Journal Of Social Science Research 1 (2018): 556-558. web. 27 January 2020.
<https://ideas.repec.org/a/arp/tjssrr/2018p556-558.html>.
Kulvete, Samuel C. "Law, History and Literature as Narrative in The Sense Of An Ending." April 2014.
thescholarship.ecu.edu. web. 26 January 2020.
<https://thescholarship.ecu.edu/handle/10342/4403>.
Maji, Dr. Pew. "Eros, Thanatos and Existential Progression in Julian Barnes' Sense Of An Ending." The
Criterion: An International Journal in English 9.2 (2018): 232-238. web. 27 January 2020.
<http://www.the-criterion.com/V9/n2/BT01.pdf>.
Tariq, Mohammad. "A Critical Review of Julian Barnes' The Sense Of An Ending and Hilary Mantel's
Bring Up The Bodies." Pune Research: An International Journal In English 2.4 (2016): 6. web.
27 January 2020. <http://puneresearch.com/media/data/issues/57b89da80e2e7.pdf>.
Wilhelmus, Tom. "Review: Memory Reconstructed." The Hudson Review 64.4 (2012): 705-711. web.
26 January 2020. <https://www.jstor.org/stable/23243795>.
Works cited
50. Works Cited
Markowetz, F. (2012, 06 08). A philosophical suicide — Julian Barnes’ The Sense of
an Ending. Retrieved from wordpress.com.
● Memory versus documentation
● Responsibility
● Connections and reflections
● An Oedipus complex?
51. Works Cited
Oró-Piqueras, M. (2014, 02 01). Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an
Ending. Retrieved from researchgate.net.
● The act of revisiting and revising that specific episode, brings with it
feelings of guilt and remorse as the protagonist realises that his past acts
were not as noble as he remembered them to be.
● However, these acts are part of the past and they cannot be changed, thus
another question that the novel raises is how to account for those actions
of which one does not feel proud and, more importantly, how to manage
those bad memories as one gets older.
● At the age of Sixty-five, webster did not expect to find himself in this
position because he had interiorised the message that old age was a time
of peace and quietness in which one had to wait for the end without
making much fuss about it.
52. Learning outcome
● Suicide is not bad thing.
● In our story we portrail yourself great, like all positive things,
you are strong, like no lose stone in yourself.
● Karma Theory
53. Short Questions
● Write a short note on the use of letters and e-mails
included in the novel.
● What were the consequences of Tony’s letter to Adrian
and Veronica?
● Can we say that Sense Of An Ending deals with grave
existential questions?
● How is memory reconstructed in the novel?
● Short note on the application of Oedipus complex in The
Sense Of An Ending.
54. Long Questions
● How is memory revisited in Julian Barnes’
The Sense Of An Ending?
● How can we study the text as Memory
Novel?
● Can we classify the text as Confessional
Literature?
● Justify the title of the novel.
55. The List of Citations
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