Lukas is a photographer Marianne dates while studying abroad in Sweden. He isn’t very attentive to who Marianne is as a person. Instead, he’s more interested in taking provocative pictures of her and playing what he calls a “game” that involves him tying her up and degrading her while she remains silent. Marianne’s relationship with Lukas depresses her, and she ends it very abruptly when he says that he loves her—a ridiculous thing to say, she thinks, considering how poorly he treats her.
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Lukas Character Timeline in Normal People
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14. Five Months Later (December 2013)
...because he told them bad things about her. She’s now seeing a Swedish guy named Lukas, who’s a photographer. He doesn’t actually know that much about her, but he doesn’t seem...
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Marianne goes to Lukas’s apartment so he can take nude pictures of her. As he fiddles with his camera,...
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Lukas tells Marianne to take off her bra. He then approaches her with a ribbon, intending...
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