Cyclical History and Conflict in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas as a Novel and a Movie: A Comparative Study

اسم الباحث:نبال محمد العبّود

المشرف :الدكتورة هيفاء قريد

العنوان :النزاع والتاريخ المتكرر في رواية (الغيمة الأطلسية) لديفيد ميتشيل روايةوفيلماً:دراسةمقارنة

العنوان باللغة الانكليزية :Cyclical History and Conflict in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas as a Novel and a Movie: A Comparative Study

العام :2019

القسم الملخص :This thesis will examine David Mitchell’s use of postmodern narrative techniques and strategies in Cloud Atlas. It will show how these relate to his apparent interests in relations of power between individuals and factions, and the conflict resulted from these kinds of interconnected relations. This will include a discussion of debates concerning the sprawling history in different shapes and inevitable stages. How human activities and connections are revealed in the novel’s six different episodes, through which Mitchell attracts the reader to the shape of life as a cycle.
The thesis aims at clearing the concept of history in the life of human beings, how actions of one person can affect another person separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years. Against the apparent nihilistic style of the novel, Mitchell appears to promote the central Nietzschean notions of ‘Will to Power’ and ‘Eternal Recurrence’. Consequently, discussion will be about the concept of history as a reproductive process, consisting of various events that convey certain levels of knowledge. This knowledge is expressed by the vision of humanity and human relations of power, and which are, in turn, open to extended analysis in Foucauldian terms.
The differences between the writer’s thoughts, knowledge, and means of writing on the one hand, and the directors’ techniques and meta-cinematic gestures, on the other hand, will be under study as the cinematic techniques and effects of film making can draw a clear line concerning the limits of perception between the reader and viewer

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