A Room With A View

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Caroline Gillinder

Liz Little – A Room with a View

Compare the ways in which Forster presents the three kiss scenes and consider the effect on the reader

Forster presents Lucy as a young, naïve and discouraged girl and presents George as a lost philosopher that cannot understand the world. As Forster brings them together in a deterministic society, the reader can feel the denying flirtation between Lucy and George. The Edwardian etiquette that Forster shows within ‘A Room with a View’ shows how difficult it was for Lucy, especially, because George ‘did not do’. As the kisses progress, Lucy and George develop with strength to become themselves instead of constantly conforming. The kisses have important stages within the novel to transform Lucy and George into being who they really want to be.

In chapter six, the reader can predict that something beautiful is going to happen. Forster deliberately names the chapter ‘...Drive out in Carriages to See a View’. To my analysis, Forster deliberately mentions the ‘View’ to make the reader consider that there will be some freedom involved within this chapter.

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When Lucy finally finds George looking into the view, the reader can see that George has already found his freedom. The immediacy of their first kiss as George, ‘stepped quickly forward and kissed her’ shows that George, for the first time in his life knows what he wants. The language that Forster uses to describe Lucy as the ‘one who had fallen out of heaven’ enables the use of imagery to portray Lucy as an angel. Lucy is literally the first women in George’s life which portrays the image of Adam and Eve. The perfection of the moment between Lucy ...

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