英国病人小说与电影对比

Brief Introduction

The whole story is about four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The four main characters are: an unidentifiably-burned man—the titular patient, presumed to be English; his Canadian Army nurse, a Sikh British Army Sapper, and a Canadian thief. The story occurs during the North African Campaign and centers on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters.

Similarities:

1.major idea: the war and the morality; the love and the human nature; the gender and the power. The war destroys everything. It breaks peace, beauty, and human nature.During the cruel war, there are many things becoming under suspicion.: the love, the loyalty, the ownership, the friendship,and the morality. So both the novel and the movie aim at criticizing the wars and representing the effects on human nature and love.

2.technique of expression: Both the novel and the movie are skilled in dealing with time sequence and spatial order to give a better narration. For example, the person and the person pronoun always keep changing, and the constant change of the time is also the highlight.

3.Figures: All the important characters are kept.

Differences:

1.the whole plot:Different from the movie,the telling of the love story about Katharine and Almasy ends in the middle of the story.Much more information about other people is mentioned in the novel.That is to say,the story in the novel;s version is more complicated and elaborate.

2.details: A.In the novel,when Katharine’s husband, Clifton, knew that her wife had cheated on him, he chose to revenge by making the aircraft be crushed. But in the movie it is not mentioned as that, and maybe it is just a accident. B.In the novel, the reason that Kip left is not because his friend died of bombing.Kip hated the war.

The author prefer the movie.

1.The brilliant directing and acting

2.The recreating of the story,the simplifying of relationship

3.Detail: the church scene is magnificent,and the hiden meaning of the book