The Good Apprentice (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Iris Murdoch
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Edward Baltram, Stuart Cuno, Harry Cuno, Thomas McCaskerville
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Sex or sexuality, Suicide, Art or artists, Friendship, Guilt, 1980’s, Adultery, Accidents, Death or dying, Good and evil, Drugs, London, Depression, mental, Ethics, Apprentices
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
The Good Apprentice incorporates many of the themes and techniques that are found in other Iris Murdoch novels. There is, first of all, the debate and dramatization of the ethical problem of “the good”; there is the theme of the role and place of the artist in the late twentieth century; there is the doubling and pairing of characters and the switching about of lovers and relationships; there is, finally, the qualified happy ending of this brilliant and typical Murdoch novel.
The novel begins with a moral and ethical problem: Edward Baltram gives a...
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