Sister and brother incest often becomes a gimmick and label, which is just the source of contradictions that promote the development of the story. This novel shows the formation process of incest results and ends with an incestuous union. The ignorant sexual consciousness of boys and girls has become a fixed element of McEwan's novel, and as an early work, it focuses on this content from the beginning, but it only links the themes of incest and taboo. As fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys and girls, the protagonists and sisters have self-awareness and can recognize the world independently. Eyes to touch the world. At this embarrassing age, they restructured their relationship according to their natural instincts in the isolated island of losing their parents and outside guidance. The elder sister turned to the younger brother. "Do you think what we did was wrong? I don't know, but it's natural to me. The same to me." it is nature to me, and McEwan sets up a natural world in which the natural taboos of incest are questioned the ethical norms of the civilized world.
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