The English Patient Essays - The English Patient,

The English Patient As followed by the big hit of Titanic's great tragedy love story . It seems that love romantic stories are in favour to touch people's deep feelings. The English Patient, " however, is a great epic romance novel. It's an extravagance of the romantic spirit, a yearning for passion. A immoral love story between one man(Almasy) and a married woman(Katharine). Also a nurse's love and care toward his patient. Style of the novel uses the in-between of past and present. Backward into memory, forward into loss and desire, the lost of Almasy's physical appearence, his love and the desire to survive after he was badly burned and lost memory dued to plane crush. And later on, how himself and others discovered his unpleasnat past. The novel is mostly focus on the patient(as Almasy)'s inner conflicts. Why he hidden his past to others and how he began to face it after a man named Caravaggiuo who was suffered from Almasy's betrayal of England, and came for revenge.