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A roman a clef is a book in which
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A roman a clef is a book in which fictional characters are based on real life people.
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D.H. Lawrence believed that people are defined by the
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D.H. Lawrence believed that people are defined by the work they do.
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Sons and Lovers is VICTORIAN in that it is about a child born into
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Sons and Lovers is VICTORIAN in that it is about a child born to working class family from the countryside taht struggles to make a living.
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Naturalism is the aesthetic that we are______and that man is a _______
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Naturalism is the aesthetic that we are born alone and ultimately die alone. Man is a predator, and is ultimately preyed upon.
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Bilding's Roman is a _____ novel that traces a
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Bilding's Roman is a quest novel that traces a character questing for something.
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The three main themes in Sons and Lovers are
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1. Instinct vs. Intellect
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Instinct vs. Intellect
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Instinct vs. Intllect
Intellect is very important and causes Paul to investigate, yet, instinct is what triumphs over every other consideration. |
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Nature vs. Civilization
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Nature vs. Civilization
Civilization has gone wild in Industrial Development. Lawrence experiences alienation in his homeland as the England he was born to dies and is replaced by an ultra-modern industrialist machine. |
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Study of Triangular Relationhips
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Study of Triangular Relationships
Paul-Miraim-Clara Paul-Mrs. Morel-Miriam Paul-Mrs. Morel-Clara Paul-Clara-Baxter Dawes |
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Literary Naturalism deals with the search for
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Literary Naturalism deals with the search for meaning. LN has lots of loneliness and views the universe as a stark, bitterly realistic place.
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In Literary Naturalism, _____ determines everything.
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In Literary Naturalism FATE determines everything and a person is incapable of fighting against it. FATE controls people.
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Naturalists believe that nature will
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Naturalists belive that nature will do whatever it wants with you.
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In ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, you are determined by the
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In ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, you are determined by the economic class you are born into. It is very difficult to move up in status and have freedom over the kind of life live.
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In ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, the three most important factors that determine whether a person will have any freedom over their life are
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In ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, the three most important factors that will determine whether a person will have any freedom over their life are: HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, and the MOMENT.
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If Lawrence did not have intellect, he believes that he would
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If Lawrence did not have intellect, he believes that he would not have anything. It is imporant for Paul to have intellect so that he can escape ECONOMIC DETERMINISM and won't be forced to work in the coal mines.
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According to Lawrence, Intellect refers to the to the search for
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According to Lawrence, Intellect refers to the search for truth and beauty. He sees the beauty of erotic love and sexual fulfillment. He sees the beauty of nature and artistry.
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The Oediple Complex deals with a boy being madly in love with
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The Oediple Complex deals with a boy being madly in love with his mother and feeling that he must vanquish the father to win the mother's complete affection.
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According to Paul, Instinct deals with the development of
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According to Paul, Instict deals with the development of IDENTITY. Paul/Lawrence struggles with marriage and other intimate relationships because he does not know how to deal with the instinct to give one's self fully to another without losing one's identity in the process.
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Sons and Lovers is a novel about the
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Sons and Lovers is a novel about the family structure.
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Gertrude is raised as a good Puritan
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Gertrude is raised as a good Puritan woman and has an urge not just to procreate, but to experience a pleasure and closeness that separates her from animals. Lawrence believes that it is okay to have physical love just for the sake of physical love.
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Walter Morel pretends that he is wealthy and is a
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Walter Morel pretends that he is wealthy and is a handyman. Walter makes Gertrude laugh. For Lawrence, laughing is a very intimate thing.
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Lawrence distrusts businessmen because he views them as elements of civilization that would
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Lawrence distrusts businessmen because he views them as elements of civilization that would kill the creative fire (intellect) in his soul.
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Gertrude wants to be a woman, but if she could just be a
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Gertrude wants to be a woman, but if she could just be a man, she thinks everything would be alright. She wants to have a man's body with a woman's sensibilities.
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Dancing, Laughing, and Sparring were the physical and
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Dancing, Laughing, and Sparring were the physical and sensoul attractions that led Gertrude and Morel into marriage. All three of those things were different and exciting for the Puritan-raised Gertrude.
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Gertrude believes that sharing and exchanging
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Gertrude believes that sharing and exchanging love is the purpose of her life--yet she finds this love in her children, not in her husband.
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Gertrude's family, like the family of Lawrence's mother, was extremely
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Gertrude's family, like the family of Lawrence's mother, was extremely successful and wealthy, yet had almost all of theire success and money wiped out by wars. Gertrude missed out on her chance to marry a person of her own status.
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Gertrude had children in an attempt to make the marriage
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Gertrude had children in an attempt to make the marriage better. Yet, she turns to her children to share and exchange love instead of towards her husband. p.17 "she turned to the child; she turned from the husband."
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Gertrude is stronger than Morel when it comes to
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Gertrude is stronger than Morel when it comes to emotions. For Lawrence, emotions were everything.
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Lawrence sees a full expression of
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Lawrence sees a full expression of emotions in the female. Gertrude has the full range of emotions and Morel does too, he is just not smart enough to articulately express those emotions.
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There is a great difference between the civilized____ and the ____
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There is a great difference between the civilized Gertrude and the pagan Morel. Morel drinks and works in a coal mine. Gertrude is a very moral and religous woman.
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When Morel cut Williams hair in the living room, it was a symbolic
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When Morel cut Williams hair in the living room, it was a symbolic castration. Since women had to remove all bodily hair, removing Williams locks of hair akin to castration. Morel cut William's locks to punish Gertrude for her worship of William's hair.
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In Britain, the first son always had much symbolic
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In Britain, the first son always had much symbolic power. The first son is the one onto whom the parents would project their aspirations.
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William is the one who becomes the man his mother would love to have
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William is the one who becomes the man his mother would love to have married. He becomes a businessman, is a man of the city, becomes a gentleman in a very superficial way, and becomes a suitor. William is also very unselfish in a very gullable way-as evidenced by his constantly buying Miss Western new gloves.
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In the view of the family as a system, the second child takes on the emotional role of
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In the view of the family as a system, the second child takes on the emotional role of caretaker of mother and father.
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Paul is everybit the ____ of his family.
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Paul is everybit the caretaker of his family. When his mother welcomes him, he is fully whole. When his father is drunk and unstable, he is destroyed.
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In order for Pual to move on and move up in his life, William must
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In order for Paul to move on and move up in his life, William must die. William is the accomplisher, the suitor, and the practical businessman. Paul cannot compete with this because he is the second born child and is just a painter.
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The White Man's Burden is known as the belief that those who
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The White Man's Burden is known as the belief that those who are smarter and stronger should educate and mold other cultures. Ronnie Heslop embodies this belief.
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Paul wants all people to embrace the
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Paul wants all people to embrace the creator in all of us. Paul believes that God exists in each of us and embraces lots of pagan and natural rhythms in life. He is even nicknamed "postle" after the Apostle Paul.
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Paul can't give himself completely to
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Paul can't give himself completely to a woman. Something powerful, like the bond he shares with his mother, must be broken through for him to find true love.
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When Paul kills his mother, even though it is a mercy
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When Paul kills his mother, even though it is a mercy killing, it is almost as though he HAD to kill his mother to free himself from the bond with his mother.
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Paul and his mother address each other in terms that only
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Paul and his mother address each other in terms that only lovers would use. "My sweet," "Little," Pidgin," etc.
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Miriam is the feminine equivalent of
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Miriam is the feminine equivalent of Paul. He gives lots of holiness to her and is both afraid of and in awe of her virginity. This fear of her virginity makes him uncomfortable with her because he does not want to be the one to take it from her. Describes first sexual encounter with her as if she were "sacrficing" her virginity for him--supernatural terms associated with sex.
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Paul describes his first sexual encounter with Miriam in a way that made it sound as though
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Paul describes his first sexual encounter with Miriam in a way that made it sound as though she were "sacrificing" her virginity for him. "Sacrifice" is a term of worship, yet is used in Sons and Lovers in a sexual context.
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Miriam, unlike Paul, does not feel as though she has to be
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Miriam, unlike Paul, does not feel as though she has to be broken to truly love another person. Paul privaleges the female and is extremely attracged to strong women. Miriam is highly intellectual and has a lover's hold on Paul, which is why Gertrude dislkes her.
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Gertrude remaining married to Morel until death and Clara never divorcing Baxter Dawes are examples of
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Gertrude remaining married to Morel until death and Clara never divorcing Baxter Dawes are examples of the Victorian way of thinking regarding marriage.
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Paul is more at ease having sexual passion with Clara because she
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Paul is more at ease having sexual passion with Clara because she is not a virgin. Paul is not the one that took her virginity away from her and is thus not the one that must dedicate the rest of his life to her.
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When Paul takes Miriam's virginity, he feels as though he is
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When Paul takes Miriam's virginity, he feels as though he is eternally bound to her. This eternal commitment makes him very uncomfortable.
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The name "Miriam," sounds like
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The name "Miriam," sounds like Mary, the Virgin.
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Ultimately, Paul would love it if Clara and Miriam were to merge
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Ultimately, Paul would love it if Clara and Miriam were to merge into the same person.
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At the end of the novel, Paul leaves the rural
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At the end of the novel, Paul leaves the rural that he loves and goes into the urban and the modern at the end.
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The title, "A Passage to India," comes from a
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The title, "A Passage to India," comes from a Whitman poem of the same name.
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A Passage to India is about Ms. Quested's quest for
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A Passage to India is about Ms. Quested's quest for love and learning. Ms. Quested wants to see the true India, not the recreation of England which colonization is all about.
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A Passage to India is about the
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A Passage to India is about the fears of change. E.M. Forster wants to show us that the west cannot meet or merge with the east because both sides cannot understand each other.
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Forster shows us that the east is a
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Forster shows us that the East is a MUDDLE in which the stratification of the culture is varied, wonderful, and should not be changed. If one tries to change or mold the muddle for their own purposes, there will be great turmoil.
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Both Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz have a
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Both Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz have a son and a daughter and both of them had two spouses that died. There is a unique equality about them despite their circumstances.
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Mrs. Quested wants to see the real India as a tourist wants to
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Mrs. Quested wants to see the real India as a tourist wants to extract the essence of a place. The problem is, there is not just one real India, but hundred or more real Indias.
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When Ronnie says, "We're not here to be pleasant, we're here to civilize the country," he is espousing the
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When Ronnie says, "We're not here to be pleasant, we're here to civilize the country," he is espousing the "White Man's Burden."
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The caves are a tourist attraction to
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The caves are a tourist attraction to the westerners who see them, but they are mysterious, ominous and holy to the Indians who know their real purpose.
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The Hindu Temple Ruins are a mixture of
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The Hindu Temple Ruins are a mixture of spirituality and sexuality. Ms. Quested wants to experience sex, and, as a British woman, the only way she has to express her sexual desires is in the context of marriage.
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When Mrs. Moore says, "India forces one to come face to face with one's self," she is basically calling into
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When Mrs. Moore says, "India forces one to come face to face with one's self," she is basically calling into question all the beliefs she has ever had regarding the White Man's Burden and her own Christian Faith.
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In the Mosque sequence of "A Passage to India," there is a
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In the Mosque sequence of "A Passage to India," there is a symbolic marriage between Mrs. Moore and Dr. Aziz. They both see that they are alike, Mrs. Moore has her head covered, and Dr. Aziz is enchanted with her because she is an old soul.
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Forster would be like Fielding due to his belief that
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Forster would be like Fielding due to his belief that, "We should be British, but a kinder, more benevolent British."
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Mrs. Moore also wants to see the real India, but
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Mrs. Moore also wants to see the real India, but realizes that she will NEVER be able to see it or accept it. She has been a Christian with a Puritan way of looking at things for far too long.
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T.S. Elliot's "The Wasteland," made use of the saying
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T.S. Elliot's "The Wasteland," made use of the saying "shanti, shanti, shanti," meaning the peace which passeth all understanding.
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Shanti, Shanti, Shanti embodied the belief that
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Shanti, Shanti, Shanti embodied the belief that there is a common human bond and an affirmation that passes all language and cultural barriers. It is a peace which must be felt, not learned. Mrs. Moore went to find something in India, and the thing she found scared her.
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The book, "A Passage to India," has no conclusion because the
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The book, "A Passage to India," has no conclusion because the passage is still being sought.
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Aziz is fascinated with Persian poetry and shows himself to be a
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Aziz is fascinated with Persian poetry and shows himself to be a romantic. Romance is an important human theme, but modernists will always show the reader the price one pays for being a romantic.
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Aziz wants to be friends with the British by
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Aziz wants to be friends with the British by fawning at them. Aziz even goes so far as to talk about breasts with Mr. Fielding.
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When Mrs. Moore says, "Like many old people, I suppose I'm merely a passing figure in a godless universe," it is an example of how
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When Mrs. Moore says, "Like many old people, I suppose I'm merely a passing figure in a godless universe," it is an example of how her experiences in India have cause her to question everything she ever knew about herself and her Christian faith.
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When Ms. Quested gets to the top of the mountain and says, "It's almost a mirage," when looking at India, it is symbolic of the fact
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When Ms. Quested gets to the top of the mountain and says, "It's almost a mirage," when looking at India it is symbolic of the fact that she will never be able to see the true India.
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The caves which Adela Quested visited were like the
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The caves which Adela Quested visited were like the womb of India. Going there proved to be a rebirth for Adela because it caused her to question the good vs. evil beliefs she held as a Christian.
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Hinduism is about the
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Hinduism is about the oneness and unity existing between all things big and small.
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The oneness and unity that Hindus believe exists between all creatures is captured in the popular
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The oneness and unity that Hindus believe exists between all creatures is captured in the popular mantra "ohm." The echo that drives Mrs. Moore out of the cave and rings in Ms. Quested's head had a BOOM come back before any sound. This BOOM sound contains the oneness and unity that Hindus believe in.
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Mrs. Moore cannot embrace the theory of oneness or reincarnation because she
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Mrs. Moore cannot embrace the theory of oneness or reincarnation because she has been a Christian for too long. Despite her unwillingness to give her faith, Mrs. Moore still has doubts.
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When Fielding says, "It is difficult to believe, as we get old, that the dead don't live again," he is explaining
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When Fielding says, "It is difficult for us to believe, as we get old, that the dead don't live again," he is explaining why Mrs. Moore believes in Ghosts. Mrs. Moore also dies staring at the stars--as if waiting to make her passage into the universe.
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The British are proud of having a stiff
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The British are proud of having a stiff upper lip, an expression that serves as a metaphor for "showing no emotions." Having a stiff upper lip is a way for the higher classes to show their superiority to the lower classes. This sounds difficult, but when possessing as much money as they do, it is not nearly as difficult as it sounds.
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Godbole believes believes that the sky is symbolic of the
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Godbole believes that the sky is symbolic of the oneness of all things because the sky covers all things.
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One of the major themes of E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," is that no person or no one thing is
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One of the major themes of E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India," is that nothing is ever wholly good or wholly evil. Everything has measures of good AND evil which must be considered.
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At the end of the novel, when Fielding and Aziz had to ride their horses in single file due to a crevice, the crevice
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At the end of the novel, when Fielding and Aziz had to ride their horses in single file due to a crevice, the crevice represents the cultural gap between the two men and their countries which can never be bridged.
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At the Maribar Caves, Ms. Quested is sexually
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At the Maribar Caves, Ms. Quested is sexually attracted to Aziz because he is charming, handsome, and, perhaps in her mind, exotic. She holds his hand up the mountain and her sweat mixes with his.
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The incident with Ms. Quested at the caves is a symbolic rape of
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The incident with Ms. Quested at the caves is a symbolic rape or Aziz because it forever severs his exotic innocence.
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Stream of Consciousness is used
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Stream of Consciousness is used throughout Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse."
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The MODERNIST AESTHETIC was a literary
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The MODERNIST AESTHETIC was a literary movement in form that was inspired by the fact that most of life's issues and themes had been discussed countless times for hundreds of years. The Modernist Aesthetic was about finding new ways to explore ideas in literature and fiction. "Make it New," was a common Modernist theme.
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Virginia Woolf is a high___from the
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Virginia Woolf is a high modernist from the 1920s, a period known as "Entres Les Guerres," or "between wars."
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Two of the seminal works of Modernism came out in
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Two of the seminal works in Modernism came out in 1922, "The Wasteland," and "Ulyses."
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Two possible explanations of what the lighthouse could be are
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One possihble explanation of what the lighthous could be is, the hope of dreams--something to look forward to and something that will guide us.
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The sky or Karma will say when it is righ to
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The sky or Karma will say when it is right to go to the Lighthouse.
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"To The Lighthouse," like, "A Passage to India," is about
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"To The Lighthouse," like, "A Passage to India," is about a passage.
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Picasso was a modernist painter that tried to show that
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Picasso was a modernist painter that tried to show that nothing was as it seemed. He would paint a cat with an eye, a tail, and a body in no particular order. The viewer is supposed to see the essence of the cat, not the cat itself.
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ENNUI and MALAISE are two terms of Psychoanalysis that
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Ennui and Malaise are two terms of Pyschoanalysis that fascinated Virginia Woolf.
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Ennui is the way a person feels in
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Ennui is the way a person feels in spirit at not knowing their place in the world.
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Malaise is a term similar to Ennui that means
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Malaise is a term similar to Ennui that means spritual sickness.
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Around the time Virginia Woolf was writing "To The Lighthouse," it was believed that if art was to have meaning,
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Around the time Virginia Woolf started writing "To The Lighthouse," it was believed that if art was to have meaning, it must take, effort, imagination, and intellect to properly understand it. Art was designed for the intellectual elite.
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Modernism pluralizes and
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Modernism pluralizes and surrealizes reality. Modernism said that God is cold and dead and that people should always live like there is no tommorow.
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In Woolf, there is an assertion that life has
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In Woolf, there is an assertion that life has meaning and beauty.
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Mrs. Ramsay sees beauty in the
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Mrs. Ramsay sees beauty in the family structure, in herself, and in taking care of other people.
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"To The Lighthouse" makes use of the modernist term called the MOMENT, a term meaning that
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"To The Lighthouse," makes use the modernist term called the MOMENT, a term meaning that time moves very quickly.
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Woolf tries to break down the steely exterior of
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Woolf tries to break down the steely exterior of Mr. Ramsay and reveal him internally.
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Mr. Ramsay exemplefies modernism by
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Mr. Ramsay exemplefies modernism by treating the children no different than he treats adults. He views life as a difficult place and believes that the children must get used to its difficulties.
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Charles Tansley is known as the "atheist" and does not embrace
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Charles Tansley is known as the "atheist," and does not embrace spirituality of any kind. Tansley has no Christian sense of right and wrong and simply wants to survive through intellect, great thinking, and the recording of his knowledge.
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Woolf says that the goal of our passage in the darkness is,
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Woolf says that the goal of our passage in the darkness is, through our intellect and strength, to endure.
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Mrs. Ramsay is a social
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Mrs. Ramsay is a social artist who is never happier than when she is portrayed in the dinner scene of the novel.
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The MYTH OF SISYPHUS is a theme for
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The MYTH OF SISYPHUS is a theme for naturalism and existentialism. Sisyphus made the Greek gods mad and doomed to forever push a boulder up a hill for the rest of his eternal life.
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Bergson was a famous, influential philosopher who
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Bergson was a famous, influential philosopher who greatl influenced modernism. He created the the saying "La duree intuition elan vital."
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La duree means
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La duree means duration. Duration is the progress of time from one point to another point.
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Intuition means that to really be inside an
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Intuition means that to really be inside an experience you must experience it yourself. Intuition is about anticipating future experiences from past experiences. Not about prophetic power, but a mystic experience.
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For Mrs. Ramsay, her life is about a series of great
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For Mrs. Ramsay, her life is about a series of great and memorable life-affirming moments.
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Elan Vital refers to the vital source, that which
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Elan Vital refers to the vital source, that which propels us forward in evolution, that which we give to a greater good--to the spirit of humanity as we move forward. Elan Vital basically refers to that which we do as a stay against the chaos of life.
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Mrs. Ramsay enjoys the moment and is a sponge of
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Mrs. Ramsay enjoys the moment and is a sponge of human emotions. She believes that people must be married and have children to form families that will bring relief against the chaos of the world. Mrs. Ramsay relies on INTUITION---she lives for the moment.
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Mr. Ramsay is described as a "beak of
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Mr. Ramsay is described as a "beak of brass" who wants to be a fountain of future knowledge. Mr. Ramsay uses LA DUREE because he thinks in terms of A-Z.
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Lily Briscoe uses both
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Lily Briscoe uses both LA DUREE and INTUITION--"I've had my measure, I've completed my vision in life."
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Mr. Ramsay's intelligence as listed from A-Z shows that he is
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Mr. Ramsay's intelligence as listed from A-Z shows that he is unable to get out of DURATION because, to him, his life is lived on a point by point basis.
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Mrs. Ramsay causes Charles Tansley to see the
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Mrs. Ramsay causes Charles Tansley to see the beauty in simple things like human beauty, instead of just deep things that require huge amounts of concentration. "Truth is beauty and beauty is truth."--Mrs. Ramsay
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Mr. Ramsay wanted to get past "R" with all his might to become the
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Mr. Ramsay wanted to get past "R" with all his might to become the great hero and leader who would rescue humanity from the depths of ignorance, yet, he is trapped by life because he does not know how to use his knowledge BEYOND the moment.
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Mrs. Ramsay has gone beyond ____ and constructs
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Mrs. Ramsay has gone beyond "R" and constructs the world through moments of sincere feeling.
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Both Mr. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay have something
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Both Mr. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay have something that the other lacks. They admire each other.
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On page 36, Mr. Ramsay says that his definition of love "requires
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On page 36, Mr. Ramsay says that his definition of love "requires sympathy, and whisky, and someone to tell the story of his suffering." Mr. Ramsay envisions himself as the sun other planets revovle around. Mrs. Ramsay's sympathy is what transforms him into the figure that he is.
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Mr. Ramsay feels responsible for humanity yet must extract
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Mr. Ramsay feels responsible for humanity, yet must extract emotion from his wife to feel human. He bows to her "as a goddess."
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Fluidity in "To The Lighthouse," refers to the
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Fluidity in "To The Lighthous," refers to the ocean. The fluidity of the ocean brings both life and death."
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The "Fisherman and His Wife" is a metaphor for the
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The "Fisherman and His Wife" is a metaphor for the Ramsays in that Mr. Ramsay is described as shivering and quivering while Mrs. Ramsay wants to be Lord of the universe to make time stand still.
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When Mr. Bankes looks upon Mrs. Ramsay in a state of
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When Mr. Bankes loos upon Mrs. Ramsay in a state of ecstatic love, it had for him the same effect of solving a scientific problem. Love and science showed that "barbarity was tamed, the reign of chaos subdued."
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In "To The Lighthouse," Mrs. Ramsay is a satellite around which
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In "To The Lighthouse," Mrs. Ramsay is a satellite around which others revolve and learn about themselves.
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One of the major truths expressed in "To The Lighthouse" is the power of
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The final big truth expressed in "To The Lighthouse" is the power of knowing yourself.
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Another main theme of the "To The Lighthouse" that makes it very similar to "Sons And Lovers," and "A Passage To India," is the attempt to
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Another main theme of "To The Lighthouse" that makes it very similar to "Sons And Lovers," and "A Passage To India," is the attempt to bridge the gaps of live. The search for the connection that would unite us all with a greater truth is a major theme.
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In "To The Lighthouse," the SEARCH for Truth is just as important as the
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In "To The Lighouse," the search for Truth is just as important as the FINDING of it.
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Mr. Ramsay is able to connect with the idea of
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Mr. Ramsay is able to connect with the idea of love and believes that imporant connections like this one are related to getting to the next level.
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When Woolf says, "You are famous upon a bookshelf," she is reffering to the
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When Woolf says, "You are famous upon a bookshelf," she is referring to the belief that art endures through the passage of time. For Woolf and Lily Briscoe, art is her triumph in her search for a stay against the relentlessness of time.
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Mrs. Ramsay's artistry is that bit of time that
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Mrs. Ramsay's artistry is that bit of time that puts us completely in the present.
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When Walt Whitman says there is no more inception in "heaven or hell than the here and the now," he means that
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When Walt Whitman says there is no more inception in "heaven and hell than in here and the now," he means that we must enjoy events as they happen now. This philosophy of life is represented in Mrs. Ramsay. Living in the here and the now is major point in the book.
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Mrs. Ramsay faces the dark of the unknown because she believes that none of us will
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Mrs. Ramsay faces the dark of the unknown because she believes that none of us will ever know another person truly and completely.
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Mr. Ramsay relentless pursues intelligence because he believes that there is
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Mr. Ramsay relentlessy pursues intelligence because he believes that there is so much ignorance in humanity and so much to do to end it. This pursuit causes him to be removed from life and watch it from the outside. The pursuit also causes him to look for feeling and emotion in his wife.
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Chaos is the uncertainty of
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Chaos is the uncertainty of life, the unknown, the ravages of the seconds ticking away on our lives.
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Mrs. Ramsay uses her family as a stay against the chaos.
Lily Briscoe finishes her painting as a stay against the chaose. Charles Tansley sees human beauty for the first time when with Mrs. Ramsay and remembers it as a stay against the chaos. |
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The Passage of Time is a major theme in "To The Lighthouse," due to examples such as
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The Passage of Time is a major theme in "To The Lighthouse," due to examples such as the passage of 10 years being the shortest section in the novel, the deaths of Mrs. Ramsay and two her children being explained with one or two sentences in brackets, and little clues like describing the "august shape" of Lily's eyes.
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The passing of 10 years being the shortest section of the novel is meant to show the relenteness assault of time. The brackets are meant to show the sudden and unexpected traits of life. The "august shape" does not only desrcibe Lily's eyes, but also symbolically showed that the month in which this particular story was being told was August.
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The wedge shaped darkness in Lily Briscoe's picture is symbolic of
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The wedge shaped picture in Lily Briscoe's picture is symbolic of Mrs. Ramsay as a central figure in her life and the novel itself. Lily sees Mrs. Ramsay as a dark line drawn down the center of her canvas.
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The Dinner Passage is one of Mrs. Ramsay's extended moments when she sees the
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The Dinner Passage is one of Mrs. Ramsay's extended moments when she sees the order and beauty of life. She describes fruit in a bowl like an artist and imagines things full of life and beauty.
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Everything comes together in the dinner scene because everyone is
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Everything comes together in the dinner scene because everyone is together, Minta and Paul came back safely and are to be wed, Mr. Bankes is not akward for very long, etc.
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At the end of the dinner scene when Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay find themselves alone, Mr. Ramsay wants Mrs. Ramsay to tell him that
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At the dinner scene when Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay find themselves alone, Mr. Ramsay wants Mrs. Ramsay to hell him that she loves him. He is a man of facts who wants things factually. It is obvious to both of them that they love each other because of the way they feel for one another, yet, she Mrs. Ramsay won't satisfy his request because she decides her own fate and makes her own decisions. She retains her position as the sun which others revolve around.
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Mrs. Ramsay will be the artist of her
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Mrs. Ramsay will be the artist of her own expressions. She does not give into him and say "I love you," but she does concede that he is right about not being able to go the Lighthouse the next day. In doing so, she displaced sympathy for her son James and gave it to her husband. This agreement is the only "I love you" she is willing to give.
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Mrs. Ramsay is afraid of the skull because it is a reminder of
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Mrs. Ramsay is afraid of the skull because it is a reminder of death and does not want the skull as a symbol of death to ruin the innocence of the children.
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