Pat Barkers ‘Regeneration’ and Ian McEwan’s ‘Enduring Love’. ‘Regeneration’ explores the consequences of shellshock between suffering soldiers and those around them. Similarly, in ‘Enduring Love’ McEwan examines an unrequited relationship between Jed, who suffers from De Clerembault syndrome, and Joe. Both novels come to the conclusion that relationships are acted out differently due to the impact of a mental disorder on a person. The opening scene of ‘Enduring Love’ is full of emotion and action
amount of religious imagery where Plath describes statues of saints “stiff with holiness” which could highlight to the reader that she is aware that suicide is a sin and that the saints and God does not condemn her actions. Similarly, in Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love Jed Parry who is the most religious character in the novel whom in the beginning of the novel “prays” over Logan’s dead body and tells Joe Rose that “it helps” however by the climax of the novel Parry’s obsession with Rose leads