- Grade: HSC
- Subject: English Advanced
- Resource type: Trial Paper
- Written by: O.F
- Year uploaded: 2022
- Page length: 2
- Subject: English Advanced
Resource Description
HSC Advanced English Module B: Trials 2022 Essay – An Artist of the Floating World
The storyteller is the truth teller. Writing has the power to show what can be otherwise, what it is that the hard, domineering eye cannot see.
Evaluate the ways that Kazuo Ishiguro is the truth teller in An Artist of the Floating World.
As the storyteller in An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the truth of the tension between having a fixed individual identity within a nation whose values are constantly changing. Through his unreliable narrator, Ono, Ishiguro emphasises what the “domineering eye cannot see” as Ono becomes lost in the midst of a redefined cultural zeitgeist. Ultimately, Ishiguro becomes the truth teller in representing the complexities of accepting a new-found identity in light of national “social and political upheaval” (Tellini).
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