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The Sense Of An Ending
Presented By: 1 Dipti
2 Kailas
3 Prakruti
4 Rajdip
5 Ruchita
6 Urvashi

About Book
• Name of work : Sense of an Ending
• Type of work : Novel
• Genre : literary fiction, memory novel and psychol...

About Author
• Julian Patrick Barnes
• He is an English writer
• He has also written Crime fiction pseudonym Dan Kavanagh
...

Character list
• Tony Webster
• Veronica Ford
• Adrian Finn
• Alex
• Colin
• Jack
• Margaret
• Sarah Ford
• Susie

Tony Webster
• The protagonist of the novel
• Also a narrator
• 60 year old when he is telling his story
• He is retired m...

• He found lawyer letter informing him that Sarah ford has
bequeathed him £500 and two documents
• Then re-establish conta...

Veronica Mary Elizabeth ford
• She like poetry and Classical music and refers from
dancing
• She is very complicated chara...

Continue
• The course of the novel it became clear that Veronica act
out of pain more than out of deception
• She have acc...

Adrian Finn
• Adrian joins Tony’s group
• But remain at certain distance from the other members
• Intellectual and self as...

Continue
• He leaves a note address to coroner saying that it is a
thinking person’s philosophical duty to examine the nat...

Robson
• A student in the “Science Sixth” at Tony’s school, Robson
never appears directly in the novel, but is a significa...

Colin
• A school friend of Tony
• He shares his jokey, ironic attitude though coupled with
true intellectual interest
• He...

Alex
• Alex consider the philosopher among them before Adrian
the group
• He is also a friend that share the details of Ad...

Works Cited:
• Baena, Victoria. The Sense Of An Ending. 15 June 2018. web. 24
January 2020. <https://www.licharts.com/lit/...

The sense of Ending: Theme
❑ Theme Type Word:
▪ Human Emotion
▪ Unrest
▪ Anxiety
▪ Love
▪ Death(Thanatos)
▪ Eros (Sex)
▪ F...

The sense of Ending: Theme
1.Inconsistencies
between shared
Histories
2.Conflict
between Eros
and Thanatos
5.Meditation
an...

1. Inconsistencies between shared
Histories
▪ One of the central ideas of
the novel is Unreliability
of history.
▪ “ Histo...

2. Conflict between Eros and Thanatos
• Eros and Thanatos
means ‘Sex’ and ‘Death’.
• “Thanatos weans again”
Adrian spoke a...

3. Suicide
▪ Suicide of Adrian and
Robson in this novel.
▪ Example: Farmer, and
Young man.

4. Existentialism
▪ Comes, “ There is only
one really serious
philosophical problem
and that is suicide”.
▪ Adrian as exis...

❑I Learned this novel
▪ Comus:,
▪ “There is only one really serious philosophical
problem and that is suicide”.

Making Sense Of
Sense Of An EndingMaking Sense Of The Sense Of An Ending

“Past is Autobiographical Fiction Pretending to
be a Parliamentary Report.”
-Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot)

Index
● The Title
● Onomastics
● The diary pages
● The Equations
● Letters and E-mails
● Learning Outcome (So What?) and (...

Title
Title
● Barnes borrowed the title from Frank Kermode’s book
of the same name.
● A tale or study of reflection and re...

Onomastics
● Etymological origins of the characters’ names
● Anthony (Tony): Derived from the Latin Antonius, an
old Roman...

● Veronica:- Greek: Berenike - French: Veronique[2]
● The popular "Saint Veronica" (not in the Roman Martyrology)
traditio...

The Diary Pages
● Mrs Sarah Ford leaves Tony Adrian’s Diary. However,
he’s never able to read it.
● How do we understand o...

The Equations
● b = s – v ×+ a1
● a2 + v + a1 x s = b
● The equations are Adrian’s attempts to make
sense of his situation...

Letters and Emails
● The change in communicative mediums
● Email= marker of the beginning of the digital age
● A letter an...

Learning Outcome (So What?) and
(What now?)
● The novel makes you reflect on your own life: your faults,
your words and ac...

Works Cited:
[1] Cape, Jonathan. The Sense Of An Ending. 8 August 2011.
web. 23 January 2020.
<https://www.newstatesman.co...

Comparative Study

Trailer of The sense of an ending

Character of Tony Webster and his profession
● The protagonist of The Sense of an
Ending and also its narrator
● He has se...

Susie - Tony and Margaret’s daughter
● The Novel follows linear narrative.
For example, first school days,
Collage dyas, M...

Similar Scenes in the Novel and the Movie
● Letter from Mrs. Sarah Ford
● Adrian Planning his own suicide
● Dinner table S...

● The major event happens in both when the
mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica,
wills him £500 and the diary of ...

Robbie Collin reviews The Sense Of An Ending

"The more you learn, the less you fear. 'learn' not in the sense of academic study, but in
the practical understanding of ...

Articles on The Sense of an Ending

A critical review of Julian Barnes ‘The
Sense of an Ending
• Novel – Mysteries, memories and self-deception
• Story opens ...

Review – Memory Reconstructed
• First person narrative
• Reconunts memories of Tony Webster
• Fact and memories
• Time and...

The Linguistic Singularity of the Novel the Sense of an
Ending by Julian Barnes
• Novel is Bright example of Postmodernism...

Eros, Thanatos and Existential Progression in Julian
Barnes’s novel ‘The sense of an Ending’
• Modern Existentialism devel...

Law, History and Literature as Narrative in
The Sense of an Ending
• Intersection of legal, literary, historical lenses of...

Learning Outcome
● “The more you learn, the less you fear. ‘Learn’ not in
the sense of academic study, but in the practica...

Kirpichnikova, Anna. "The Linguistic Singularity of the Novel the Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes."
The Journal Of Soc...

Works Cited
Markowetz, F. (2012, 06 08). A philosophical suicide — Julian Barnes’ The Sense of
an Ending. Retrieved from w...

Works Cited
Oró-Piqueras, M. (2014, 02 01). Memory Revisited in Julian Barnes's The Sense of an
Ending. Retrieved from res...

Learning outcome
● Suicide is not bad thing.
● In our story we portrail yourself great, like all positive things,
you are ...

Short Questions
● Write a short note on the use of letters and e-mails
included in the novel.
● What were the consequences...

Long Questions
● How is memory revisited in Julian Barnes’
The Sense Of An Ending?
● How can we study the text as Memory
N...

The List of Citations
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DrdEyaKp-
Eo72U66lRMUXRZwiOQz1_HDv6YfNcjiLS4/edit?usp=sharing

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