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Write a comparative review of the film and novel versions of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe's novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
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Write a comparative review of the film and novel versions of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe's novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was seen as breaking new ground in it's realistic, unsentimentalised portrayal of the English working class. It was published on a wave of post war literature that was characterised by the anger of the protagonist, and was surprisingly successful. Melvyn Bragg believes that this was due not only to the power of the writing, but also because 'the situation was recognisable to everybody, almost whatever class they were in, being bound and trying to get out of it and failing to do so.'1 The film was similarly successful and despite the changes made Arthur Seaton's defiant struggle for individuality remains a central theme and the spirit of the novel is not lost. While the spirit remains the same the narrative approach of the novel and the...
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