Thinking activity : The sense of an Ending

● Thinking activity : The sense of an Ending 

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1. How do you understand memory and history with reference to your reading of this novel.

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation".

 History and memory are interconnected with each other. History made with the imperfection of the memory and the insufficiency of documentation. Memory is about imperfection and insufficiency of the documentation. There is no proper way to document things in the memory. It is highly unreliable. In the novel Tony Webster told things on the basis of his memory and  readers thought that is reliable and truth but later on this thing broken  down when his letter coming on his hand which he had wrote to Adrian and Varonica. It breaks all the narrative build by Tony. It shows the real side of him. He thinks that he is good  human being but it's not reality. It is constructed by his memory for himself. So upon this we can say how memory is harmful. In the history the things written according to Narrators point of view which is highly unreliable because Narrator himself is not part of History or the way he remembered according to his believes is far away from the reality. 

2. How do you understand the concept of suicide with reference to your reading of literature ranging from Renaissance play Hamlet, 20th century Existential Philosophy and this 21st century novel The Sense of an Ending?

It has  huge difference in concept of suicide from Renaissance play Hamlet , 20th century Existential philosophy and 21st century novel The sense of an Ending. In the Hamlet suicide consider as sin according to Christianity. The people who committed suicide should not allow to buried with proper Christian rituals. They consider as sinner. Later on in in 20th century with Existential philosophy idea of suicide changed. 

"Perhaps there is no one alive who would not already have put an endto his life if this end were something purely negative, a sudden cessation ofexistence. )but there is something positive in it as well: the destruction of thebody. This is a deterrent because the body is the phenomenal form of the will to live."

Every individual has ownership of their being and outght be allowed the choice to end their own life instead of treating suicide as criminal. In the novel sense of ending shows the philosophical idea of suicide that suicide is not crime everyone has right to end their lives. It is kind of wish or the right which every person has. After living your life and  getting satisfaction in life if one wish to end their life they can committed suicide. Adrine has live his life with full of capacity he was satisfied with his life. He has no any goal in his life so he decide to end his life rather than live life as burden upon him.