Wartime Britain Reflected in Ian McEwan's Atonement

Abstract

The bachelor thesis focuses on the cultural and historical context of the Second World War in Great Britain. It defines the author and the literary work in the appropriate literary context, analyzes the state of British society at the time with a focus on the social class and examines pre-war preparations on the Home Front and also the war itself and its impact on the British society. It then reflects this information in a literary analysis of McEwan's Atonement.