Michael Ondaatje

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This paper discusses how love is portrayed in Canadian author, Michael Ondaatje's "In the Skin of a Lion" by using another of his works, "The English Patient", to compare and contrast it with. By critically analyzing these two works, the paper finds that, although they appear quite different initially, the novels share many of the same processes, literary techniques, themes and syntax.

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"The English Patient's taboo love comes in two forms. First, there is the adulterous relationship between the married Katherine and Almasy. Second, there is the unusual relationship between the white American nurse and the British bomb expert of Indian origin. In both cases, as well as in the relationships in In the Skin of a Lion, the taboos or socially unusual situations are overcome by passionate love and are rendered - at least by the lovers themselves - meaningless or, at best, side-issues."

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