Cain
Cain in The Bourne Identity is the alias Webb adopts when he's pretending to be the up-and-coming assassin trying to steal Carlos's business. The word "Cain" was, the novel says, the word soldiers...
Eyes
The Bourne Identity is a thumping, thundering, thick adventure novel. It wants to make you turn the pages. It wants to get your adrenaline pumping. It likes guns and sex and shiny plot twists. All...
Fashion
Fashion is often seen as innately artificial or false: elaborate, expensive dress is an elaborate, expensive lie. The Bourne Identity gets a lot of mileage out of this common equation of fashion an...
Flashbacks
A flashback is a sudden, involuntary memory, often of a violent or painful event. Bourne has flashbacks throughout the novel. For example, he experiences one while thinking about war and waiting to...
Water
Water in The Bourne Identity is generally associated with rebirth, when Bourne gets reborn and so on.Yeah, we went there. But so did Ludlum, so we're just going to own it.At the beginning of the bo...