The Era of Crises: a Thematic Analysis of Ian McEwan's Saturday

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10.2991/cesses-19.2019.146How to use a DOI?

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crises; Ian McEwan; Saturday

Abstract

In Saturday, Ian McEwan draws a picture of the Western society, culture and individuals after the 9/11 attack. This essay analyzes the theme of Saturday in the perspective of crisis. The post-9/11 era describes the western society after terrorist attack, the ambivalence about the Iraq war, and the prevalent certainty, revealing McEwan's grand view of creation. Second, the post-industrial part dissects the consumerism, the conflicts between culture and science, and homogeneity, showing the novelist's unique thoughts on culture. At last, the analysis of individual crisis put under microscope the distorted intersubjectivity, discipline and institutionalization and recovery. This essay shows McEwan's concerns and also hopes for mankind. The thematic analysis of Saturday in the perspective of crisis helps unveil the writer's diverse visions and his understanding of a community of shared future for mankind, and his thoughts on crises of society, culture and individuals.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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