The Bourne Identity Themes

The point of being a spy is that no one knows your identity. Therefore, logically, Jason Bourne is absolutely the best spy ever, because not even he himself knows who he is.The whole book is a kind...

Like most pulp adventure, The Bourne Identity is built around a war between good guys and bad guys. The world is split between "decent" people (a term the book uses a lot), and utter scumbags; betw...

Lies and deceit are usually thought of as bad things perpetrated by bad people. And to some extent, that's the case in The Bourne Identity. The bad guy, Carlos, has secret identities and lies to ju...

The love story between Bourne and Marie St. Jacques is kind of a weird thing in The Bourne Identity. It's definitely a central part of the plot: there are a lot of pages devoted to it; Marie provid...

The Bourne Identity is obsessed with memory and the past. Bourne spends the whole novel racing around trying to regain his memory and piece together his former life. The book is structured as layer...

The Bourne Identity isn't quite one of those body count action movies like Rambo or anything by John Woo, where the whole point is to watch the good guy shoot people till the bodies are piled up in...

Spy stories love competence and skill. They love super-agents who out-fight and out-think and out-deceive with such precision and élan that their adversaries can only gape in wonder. And also die....

The Bourne Identity is mostly about dudes shooting each other. All the testosterone results in…well, let's say in a complex relationship with its female characters.Marie St. Jacques is a good exa...