Patriot Games | Themes
Violence is present throughout Patriot Games, and the cruel violence of terrorism suffuses the lives of the principal characters with fear and anger. In spite of their high-sounding ideal of establishing a Marxist Utopia in Ireland, the terrorists' indiscriminate use of violence serves to underscore their moral repulsiveness; for Clancy they are merely animals who would murder children to achieve their political ends.
Hatred is another theme in the novel. The terrorists are motivated by a hatred of the English. Any cruelty, any torture, any infliction of pain is justified...
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