Obsession in Enduring Love-Nature

In chapters 1-16 in the novel ‘Enduring love’ by Ian McEwan, the nature of obsession is brought about many times in many different cases. We see this particular subject throughout the novel in very mild cases and very extreme cases. These obsessions range from Clarissa’s obsession with Keats the poet to Jed Parry’s obsession with Joe Rose. The first we would consider a healthy obsession but the latter an extremely unhealthy obsession.

Many of the obsessions I think link in one way or another. In chapter one we hear about Keats the poet for the first time. Clarissa has been hunting for some missing letters by him. Indeed letters feature frequently in the novel. Ironically Jed pesters Joe with unwanted letters later on in the novel. Another link that Keats has with Joe’s situation is that Keats is in love with a woman called Fanny Brawne but was doomed never to marry her, rather like Parry and his hopeless love with Joe.

From the start of the novel I think that it is evident that Joe almost has an obsession with himself. The way the novel is written, from Joe’s point of view, him been the main narrator, gives us a huge indication of the sort of man Joe

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