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Notes on a Scandal
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Created by Arkadi Will NOTES ON A SCANDAL by Zoë Heller How is the theme of obsession presented within the novel? The title of the book offers to us an understanding what as to may be to going happen in the story. The story is written with a first person narrator and so we know that the story will be just one person's way of thinking. Also as a reader we must ask, is the whole story unreliable when written in this diary form because it is one person's view point? Through the involvement of Barbara in this story we do get a participant and narrator in one person, so we are invited to believe everything that this person is going to tell us about everybody relating to her. But Barbara also uses the power of control, because she does not tell as what we would like to know about her relationship with Jennifer....
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