Love can sometimes be a destructive or a healing force to one's relationship. In the novel, The English Patient, written by Michael Ondaatje, love is appeared to be the truest element in many forms of relationships during the wartime. The traditional marriage of Geoffrey and Katherine Clifton, the affair between Almasy and Katharine, and the temporary love between the Canadian nurse, Hana, and the sapper, Kip, have all developed both a destructive and healing force in various ways.
             The newly married couple, Katharine and Geoffrey Clifton, is first introduced in the Society in Cairo. Clifton is boyish and young; his wife is too eager for his taste. Due to the beauty and aspects of his new wife, Clifton cannot stop publicly praise for her. This overabundance causes a destructive force on their relationship, which lead to a betrayal.
             Additionally, Ondaatje uses the affair between Katharine and Almasy to emphasize the unifying theme, love. Their love begins with purely physical attraction, yet it quickly progresses to a deeper level of love. When Katharine recites a poem to the Society at the campfire one night, Almasy falls in love with her voice. Katharine is eager to seek a better change in life since the embarrassment made by his husband. Though, Almasy is fifteen years older than Katharine, she is charmed by his nuance. The affair rapidly develops with their attraction of each other. Ultimately, their affair ends in a sudden due to the reason that Almasy rejects to ownership and naming: " You slide past everything with your fear and hate of ownership, of owning, of being owned, of being named. You think this is virtue. I think you are inhuman"(P.238) In the quote said by Almasy to Katharine, it clearly shows that Almasy strongly dissatisfies with Katharine's point of view, thus, leads to a diversification in their relationship. Furthermore, due to Geoffrey strong web of relati
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