The Assault by Harry Mulisch

In Harry Mulisch's novel "Attack", the author not only informs the difference between good and evil in society but also provides evidence on how important innocent guilty is to reach agreement with their individuals in the past doing. First, Mulisch uses the characters Takes, Coster, and Ploeg to express the difference in perspective against attack night. Then he used Anton, who said that people can not escape the past for sin. Both courses are important to Mulisch and worth sharing with readers.

Attacks by Harry Mulisch began everywhere in the Steenwijk family, but in fact they did not murder him personally except for the youngest child Anton who was murdered for the assassination of Nazi collaborators. Eventually, the characters were introduced into the novels, and these characters may be blamed for by the death of Steenwijks. These include the resistance fighters Truus Coster and Cor Takes assassinated by Nazi co-author Fake Ploeg. However, in the rest of the novel, Mulisch introduced their motivation and personality. And that conflicted with the expectations of Truus and Takes. This contrast of expectation and true personality helps to present the universal theme, people who are not entirely right and wrong.

In this article we will explore the guilt, responsibility and coincidence issues that occur in Harry Mulisch's novel "Attack". Mulisch's work is very autobiographical and historical, as there is a great relationship between his life and his novels, especially with what I deal with. I started with a short biography, then a detailed summary of the novel, and finally I personally contemplated the issues already mentioned. Author's Biography: Harry Murish is the most important after-war writer in the Netherlands. In 1927, Haarlem of the Netherlands was born to a mother of the Jews, the family died in concentration camps, and the father of the Austrian-Hungarian empire cooperated with the Nazis during the war was imprisoned. The theme of the work He received the best award in the Netherlands in his novels, theater, poetry and essays.