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The extract that follows comes from a novel. Examine how the writer conveys the experience of falling and the ways in which this experience is expanded and reflected upon. How effective do you find this description?
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The extract that follows comes from a novel. Examine how the writer conveys the experience of falling and the ways in which this experience is expanded and reflected upon. How effective do you find this description? This extract from Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea,' is fairly fatalistic on looking at it for the first glance. The controlling forces of both his mind (the narrators), his body and the sea are sprinkled throughout the passage, and it demonstrates to us the drowning embrace of the sea. In some ways, this passage implies that Murdoch was inspired by Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and echoes Prospero's attempts to transform magic into spirit. Perhaps there is even a hint of the Keatsian quality of the ability to convey senses onto the page. Murdoch's passage has a kind of appeal to the senses, such as 'Then I was in the water whose intense cold surprised me...
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