A Comparison Of Ian Fleming And James Bond

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It’s very hard to not say that James Bond is an autobiographical story of Ian Fleming’s life. If one looks deeper into the details of what makes James Bond, most everything leads back to Fleming, himself. The experiences Ian Fleming and James Bond have had, people they both have met, and the places they both have been. has created an image of a man and a character being one in the same. Ian Fleming put so much of himself within the lines of his Bond novels it’s hard to draw a line between what’s Fleming and what’s just made up for Bond. Each of the James Bond novel’s gives a glimpse into the life Ian Fleming led years before writing James Bond and into the years he lived as he wrote Bond. It’s can almost be said that we get a glimpse into the …show more content…

He never lacked a pretty lady on his arm and even attempted and failed and eventually married like Ian Fleming, though Fleming’s marriage lasted a bit longer than Bond’s did. Fleming had a thing for killing off anyone girl Bond seemed to get close to. Whether those details were just building Bond as a character or not is up for discussion. They still give Fleming and Bond another linking. Another linking possible through just one female in Fleming’s life is one Fleming dated for a long time. Her name was Muriel Wright. She died and Fleming was left with her memory of her lifeless body along with the relationship they had. It is said that “the Bond Girls are all young, beautiful, and athletic, and they often die young in tragic situations. They are, as Fleming once described Wright, ‘too good to be true.’” Whether Wright is actually the model for the Bond girls or not, her death after their relationship links Bond and Fleming together. Though Fleming only saw one, it was Bond who ended up seeing a number of his female interests lifeless bodies within the novels. Another big, or rather the biggest mentionable and most noticeable linking between the two would be the settings Fleming used in the novels. All of them were set in places Fleming visited or …show more content…

These details were also easily found throughout the novels linking Bond back to Fleming directly. Wikipedia titled James Bond (Literary character) also mentions linking Fleming and Bond together in looks. The looks department seems to be where Fleming decided to take a different direction in describing Bond, but the use of the description, “dark, rather cruel good looks,” is a common thing for the two. More of Fleming and Bond’s taste meshing together include, “sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.” (Inspirations) The mentioning of scrambled eggs leads to more of the same between Fleming and Bond. The shared a liking of “Blue Mountain coffee.” (Allan) Eggs and coffee had its breakfast moments with both Ian and James on the same “balcony of a private bungalow,”

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