Unrest in The Sense of an Ending. The sense of an Ending is novel by Julian Barnes and winner of Booker prize award in 2011. Unrest is the center in novel from beginning to end.
2. Name – Reena K. Khasatiya
Roll no. 29
Semester - 4
Batch – 2017-19
Email Id- khasatiyamili21@gmail.com
Paper – New Literature
Topic- Unrest in ‘The Sense of An Ending’ & in Real life.
3. Introduction...
-We spend years of ours lives-decades in studying
various subjects in formal education system...
- Yet we rarely studying on relationships,
friendships, love or dealing with our being.
- But, In Literature Classroom it happens, we deal
with various Emotions.
- Nobel Prize Winner Julian Barnes’ The Sense of An
Ending connecting us to our own world.
4. About ‘The Sense of An ending’
-This is a Book about Memory, Aging , Personal
responsibility and How Seemingly small event can
be consequence.
-As Future events unfold, Old Memories come into
sharper focus until the Truth of what happened
earlier in life.
-In brief, Barnes has opened a floodgate of inquires
into our subjective mind And How Tony’s remorse
become ours.
5. Tony’s Unrest....
Novel dived into two part, Transitioning from
Tony’s past to present.
His own Narrative broken by him.
One Letter by him to Adrian Finn, How changes
his whole Identiy.
His feeling of Remorse is deeper than Guilt or
Regret.
6. What is Unrest?
-A Feeling of Disturbance and Dissatisfaction in a
person .
-Sociological Unrest and Self Unrest.
- Noise of Time, Noise of Memory, where no
space for Change .
-Knowing the Self Deception.
7. Like Tony , we are far from perfect . Like him,
We also invent convenient lies to mask
uncomfortable truths.
but/, Like him we also deserve to heard and
understood. We may not virtuous as our
hearts trick us to believe.
We are heroes Beautiful, Wronged,
Misunderstood and deserving of justice.
To Conclude...
8. There is accumulation. There is
responsibility. And beyond
these, there is unrest. There is
great unrest.
-The Sense of An Ending.
(Julian Barnes)
