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Boekverslag John Fowles
The collector
Geschreven door: | Phoenix The Great |
Datum ingestuurd: | 18 maart 2001 |
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Door elmar op 11-11-2003eej mag ik jou egte naam hebben.Die heb ik nodig voor engels boek-opdracht.Ik heb namelijk jou boekverslag gebruikt en daar moet de schrijver bij dus vandaar. alvast bedankt groetjes elmar
This is the story of a lonely young man who collects butterflies. He happens to admire a pretty art student from a distance and often fantasizes about her. One day, he wins a huge amount at the pools and gets the opportunity to live out his fantasy. And a fascinating encounter takes place. Between the introverted and involuted Clegg and the bright and intelligent Miranda. Between the Few and the Many.
There are only two principal characters in this novel and the rest of the characters are introduced through Miranda's jottings in her diary, which she maintains during her lonely days of imprisonment. It is interesting to read what an intelligent, pretty girl feels about life, her encounters with G.P., an artist with leftist leanings who becomes her mentor and guide, her attempts at becoming a real artist and to lead a meaningful life free of conformity. She recalls the long conversations with G.P., which helped to brush away the cobwebs from her mind. She also tries to reason with Clegg to free her and when that fails tries to escape but to no avail.
Many of us are likely to find a resonance with Miranda's thoughts and ideas; perhaps we too felt this way at some point of time. There is a poignant thought towards the end when she writes, "I would not want this not to have happened. Because if I escape I shall be a completely different and I think better person. Because if I don't escape, if something dreadful happened, I shall still know that the person I was and would have stayed if this hadn't happened was not the person I now want to be. It is like firing a pot. You have to risk the cracking and warping."
In spite of her intelligence and education, Miranda is unable to communicate with Clegg who treats her as one more butterfly in his collection, a live butterfly, forever trapped by human stupidity and ignorance, trying to escape.
In the introduction, John Fowles explains his motivations behind The Collector. He writes: "Society has persistently seen life in terms of a struggle between the Few and the Many, between Them and Us. My purpose in The Collector was to attempt to analyse, through a parable, some of the results of this confrontation. Clegg, the kidnapper, committed the evil; but I tried to show that his evil was largely, perhaps wholly, the result of a bad education, a mean environment, being orphaned: all factors over which he had no control. In short, I tried to establish the virtual innocence of the Many. Miranda, the girl he imprisoned, had very little more control than Clegg over what she was - she had well-to-do parents, good educational opportunity, inherited aptitude and intelligence. That does not mean that she was perfect. Far from it - she was arrogant in her ideas, a prig, a liberal-humanist snob, like so many university students. Yet if she had not died she might have become something better, the kind of being humanity so desperately needs."
If she had lived, Miranda would have become a better human being. Which begs the question: Do we have to go through a traumatic experience before we can change for the better? Is it not possible to change otherwise?
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