Themes In Nutshell

NUTSHELL

(Book Review)

Submitted By: Sanju Bishokarma Barali

Submitted To: Bharat Prasad Neupane

Roll No: 177009

Batch: 2017 1st semester

Content

1. Introduction of the writer

2. Context

3. Character sketch

4. Summary

5. Themes

6. Symbols

Introduction of the Writer

In adittion to, his prose fiction, he has written plays foe television and film screenplays The writer of this book , Ian McEwan was born in Aldershot, England on june 21,1948. He spent some of his childhood in places like singapore and libya,as his father was a scotsman.He returned to england and and read english at Sussex University. After graduating, he became the first student on the MA Creative Writing course established at the University of East Anglia by Malcolm Bradbury

In this novel , as we can find that the narrator is in the womb of his mother. And he is bounded with the umbilical cord where he is dependent with his mother. Therefore bounding in her mother womb he is not able the view the world. So from this writer might trying to say that he is trapped mentally and physically in a nutshell like as the narrator. The title of this novel “Nutshell” is might taken from the of the “Hamlet”.This novel is brightly studded with allusions not just to be Hamlet but also to Montaigne’s, Lolita. This book is a kind of thriller as Trudy, mother if narrator betrayed his father,john.Trudy killed his husband with his lover.so a kind of betrayed is sown in this

However in this novel, the role of Hamlet is played by a fetus within trudy’s womb. The novel begins with the narrator listening about Trudy and Claude plan to kill his father (John). This made narrator more furious, eventhough he has never met his father before. He was able to observe the otside world and the action of others people. He is not only uncomfortable with his mother but also with claude, as he is having affair with his mother. At first Trudy and Claude plan to poison one of the smooties of the john with antifreezing.Later ,during Claude and Trudy’s sex ,the narrator attempts to hang himself with his own umbilical cord. The next day, john again visit claude . But claude and Turdy sucessfully poison john’s smooties into drinks. Afer john leaves ,Trudy get information about his husband death. Later on a chief polidce inspector for the detection of the case.Because of this Trudy and Claude became panic and decided to leave the country.When they were just about to leave ,narrator dicides to born. As a result she is forced to stop but Claude wants leave initally.And finally , narrator is born and the police also arrived their and this way the novel