Sarah Bunn
IX English
November 13th, 2015
Learning the Language of Life, Liberty, and Love
When a bird is caged, it becomes restricted from all flight and has to adjust to a smaller environment. Although the bird has been obstructed from major movement, it will still be able to sing and chirp. However, if one was to cover the cage with a dark sheet, the bird would be plunged into darkness and would no longer speak nor fly. In E.M Forster’s Room With A View, Lucy Honeychurch is a young English woman who is a metaphorical ‘bird’. Society has caged Lucy by disciplining her to believe that women should act within manner, should be shielded at all times, and should have a husband. However, on an excursion to Italy, Lucy is freed from the stiff …show more content…
While Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy’s older cousin who accompanies her on her trip to Italy, shies away from this concept, Lucy becomes drawn in. Eventually, she starts participating in this form of lifestyle, with minor acts of insurgency, such as leaving the hotel by herself much to the protests of her elders. Soon after, whenever Lucy encountered a situation she disagreed with, “she would transgress it, and perhaps be sorry that she had done so.” (Forster 38). This quote shows that while Lucy adapts a rebellious nature, her habit to keep to her standard English ways is still intact. While this isn’t a giant physical change, it’s a drastic personality change for an English woman of high status. These small gestures of rebellion eventually become more and more unladylike until one day, while out on a trip with other hotel residents, George and Lucy share an illicit kiss in a field of violets. Charlotte witnesses this incident and suggests that they immediately leave for Rome. Despite her steadfastness to incorporate freedom into her life, Lucy fears being shunned from her society and convinces herself to listen to Charlotte once again. Lucy and Charlotte leave for Rome the next day, which chokes the blooming relationship between Lucy and George and curtails Lucy’s progression of nonconformity. However, this events isn’t the ultimate end of Lucy’s spiral into unconventionally but rather the start of her furtherance into independence. Italy inspires Lucy to begin to adopt individualism into her lifestyle, and her multitude of small gestures of riot and rebellion hints the start of severe modifications for
IX English
November 13th, 2015
Learning the Language of Life, Liberty, and Love
When a bird is caged, it becomes restricted from all flight and has to adjust to a smaller environment. Although the bird has been obstructed from major movement, it will still be able to sing and chirp. However, if one was to cover the cage with a dark sheet, the bird would be plunged into darkness and would no longer speak nor fly. In E.M Forster’s Room With A View, Lucy Honeychurch is a young English woman who is a metaphorical ‘bird’. Society has caged Lucy by disciplining her to believe that women should act within manner, should be shielded at all times, and should have a husband. However, on an excursion to Italy, Lucy is freed from the stiff …show more content…
While Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy’s older cousin who accompanies her on her trip to Italy, shies away from this concept, Lucy becomes drawn in. Eventually, she starts participating in this form of lifestyle, with minor acts of insurgency, such as leaving the hotel by herself much to the protests of her elders. Soon after, whenever Lucy encountered a situation she disagreed with, “she would transgress it, and perhaps be sorry that she had done so.” (Forster 38). This quote shows that while Lucy adapts a rebellious nature, her habit to keep to her standard English ways is still intact. While this isn’t a giant physical change, it’s a drastic personality change for an English woman of high status. These small gestures of rebellion eventually become more and more unladylike until one day, while out on a trip with other hotel residents, George and Lucy share an illicit kiss in a field of violets. Charlotte witnesses this incident and suggests that they immediately leave for Rome. Despite her steadfastness to incorporate freedom into her life, Lucy fears being shunned from her society and convinces herself to listen to Charlotte once again. Lucy and Charlotte leave for Rome the next day, which chokes the blooming relationship between Lucy and George and curtails Lucy’s progression of nonconformity. However, this events isn’t the ultimate end of Lucy’s spiral into unconventionally but rather the start of her furtherance into independence. Italy inspires Lucy to begin to adopt individualism into her lifestyle, and her multitude of small gestures of riot and rebellion hints the start of severe modifications for