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Dystopian institutional power, control and oppression dynamics

Politicisation of the female body

Identity

Environmental collapse

Rise of religious fundamentalism

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Parasitic bond of guilt

Communal trauma and 'rememory'

Fragmented self vs. the collective

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Unreliable narration

Personal identity being shaped by class, duty, and historical change

Morality

Memory

Theme of the outsider

Works well with The Bone People by Keri Hulme

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A Booker Prize–winning novel with complex chronology and layered motifs, demanding careful tracking of perspective and time.

Caste system

Gender narratives

'Big' vs. 'small' laws

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Bioethics - medical progress versus humanity

Construction of normality

Hope and humanity

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War

Memory

Masculinity

Moral injury

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Narrative non-fiction text in the form of a letter from father to son

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Racism

White supremacy

Exploitation

Struggle / Identity / Resistance

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Interactionality vs. agency

Sterile vs. visceral

Fractured realities and identity

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Victorian / Colonial greed / Class

Fate - astrological determinism versus free will

Morality

Systems of law

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Change as divinity

Hyperempathy and community

Environmental and social decay

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Social stratification and individual merit

Moral discernment

Reputation and familial responsibility

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Elitism

Hamartia

Social isolation / Belonging

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Agency and self-determination

Burden of immortality

Isolation vs. solitude

Motherhood

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CW: psychological trauma, suicidal ideation, animal death. explicit body horror

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Non-linear time

Fatalism

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The "God's Eye" perspective & scale

Environmentalism

Time as a construct

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CW: violence and torture, animal cruelty, nihilism

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Dystopian power structures

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Western hubris

Imperialism

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Cultural hybridity

Cycles of violence

Isolation and connection

Healing through land / Tuhonotanga

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Meta-fiction

Nature of guilt

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Enlightenment rationality versus animalistic instinct

The nature of identity / Existential crisis / Connection between lack of personal scent and 'self'/identity

Humanity's desire to be deceived by beauty

Potential link from Perfume to the obsession of Macbeth

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CW: super-graphic violence, sexual assault, psychological torture, strong language and drug use

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Free will vs. state control

The human condition

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Intertextuality

Power of literature

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Post colonialism

Cultural clash

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Post colonialism

Systemic poverty

Disintegration of traditional Māori structures/whakapapa

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Nature vs. nurture

Hubris of creation / danger of forbidden knowledge

Alienation and social rejection

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Fragility of civilisation

Ethics of survival

Paternal love

Existential despair