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E. M Forster's A Room With A View

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In E.M Forster’s, A Room With a View, protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is characterized as a young upper-class girl who was plucked from the comfort of her English country home and thrusted into a whirlwind of colorful Italian culture that is unafraid to express their love, desires and words; a stark contrast to the prim and proper English society she grew up in. However during and after her trip, Lucy experiences a conflict between her self-knowledge and societal standards which interfere in her pursuit of independence and desires of true love and happiness. A Room With a View is set during the Edwardian period, a time which progressive ideas were emerging, but sober Victorian ideals were still very prevalent in English society. Women were still living under the entrapment of men along with the prevailing belief, the cult of domesticity, which was still popular in Great Britain at the time. It emphasized that the woman’s duty was to remain at home to run the household, prepare food and take care of the husband and children. …show more content…

He represented one of the main conflicting forces, societal standards. He was introduced as a well-off, well-connected, upper-class bachelor from London who would be able to provide Lucy a stable life. But as Lucy spent more time with Cecil, she discovered that he was a weak minded individual who was a bad judge of character and critical of others, especially Lucy’s family for their bourgeois ways, therefore causing Lucy to break off her engagement. Therefore Cecil represented societal expectations and had almost bounded Lucy into an unhappy

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