Contemporary consciousness in David Mitchell's cloud atlas

• Main Author: Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan
• Other Authors: Neil Murphy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159537
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

What is this life worth living for? This seems to be the central question that David Mitchell seeks to answer in his magnum opus, Cloud Atlas. It is important to note the diction ‘this’ life suggests an awareness of other lives – past lives that existed at a different point in time, future lives tha...