https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/room-with-a-view/characters
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/a-room-with-a-view/themes
https://www.gradesaver.com/a-room-with-a-view/study-guide/themes
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/room/characters/
Quote | Page & said by | Theme/Context | Technique | Effect |
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“I don’t know what I think, nor what I want.” | Pg 52 by Lucy | sexism, manners, and changing social normsthe muddle | Repetition, dialogue, 1st person | |
“For something tremendous has happened. I must face it without getting muddled.” | Pg 41 by Lucy | Muddleddefying sexism and women’s roles in society | emotive language, symbolism/motif of muddled | |
“He looked at her, rather than through her. For the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo, she had become a living woman.” | Narrator | Sexism & Women’s roles in society | Leonardo (artwork) → fake/false ; a creationLiving woman → true/real | Shows Lucy emerging, growing, shifting from the constraints of the time |
“The elder ladies exchanged glances, not of disapproval; it is suitable that a girl should feel deeply” | Part 1 Chapter 5 by Narrator | Elder ladies are Miss Lavish and Charlotte. They acknowledge that a young girl is allowed to feel deeply Implies that when she is older she will not be allowed to feel deeplysexism and women’s roles | ||
“‘Ah,’ said Miss | ||||
Bartlett, repressing Lucy, who was about to speak.” | Narrator | Sexism and Women’s roles | Forster | |
uses dialogue and repetition of the emotive verb ‘repressing’ | ||||
to convey Charlotte’s power and control over Lucy. | y | |||
“You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it” | said by Mr Emerson | LoveThe muddle | Forster’s use of the repetition of the word | |
love and Mr Emerson’s emotive declaration | shows the reader that Lucy is on the path to self-knowledge and becoming aware of what is important in life | m |
e.g. Thus it is clear that Lucy Honeychurch learns to embrace her own identity & resist the repressive manners of the Edwardian Period.
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