Nature
"one has great need of the country and its message of purity ." mr eager views it as a medium through which you cleanae yourself of any unwanted feelings - delicacy.
Chapter 6
"don't go fighting the spring."
"don't you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condeming the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both."
The use mackintosh squares to protect from the damp grass this shows a separation from nature.
"in the company of this common man the world was beautiful and direct. For the first time she felt the influe ce of spring."
"the view Was forming at last; she could discern thte river, the golden plain..."
"light and beauty enveloped her"
Chapter 7
"rain and darkness came together. The two ladies huddled together urn an inadequate parasol"
- nature and its power cannot be defeated by delicate parasols
The storm prevokes them to show real emotion "the floads of love nd sincerity, which might fructify every hour of life, burst forth in tumult."
" the sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like someone from a book."
Chapter 9
"the outdoor world was not very familiar to him, and occasionally he went wrong in a question or fact"
"I do believe that birds and trees and the sky area the most wonderful things in life" "nature-simplest of topics" - he obviously doesnt underhand or appreciate nature. He sees it in a very construed way.
"do you know that you have never been with me in the fields or the woods since we were engaged?"
"you feel more at home with me in a room"
"never in the real countyside"
"I connect you with a view, a certain type of view"
" why should you connect me with a room?"
"a drawing room pray? With no view?"
"yes, with no view."
"I'd rather...that you connected me with the open ai."
"she reminded him of some briliant flower that has no leaves of it's own, but blooms abruptly out of world of green"
When Cecil thinks about how the kiss should have been he imagines that "Lucy was standing flower like by the water; he rushed up to her in his arms" this is similar to the kiss with George.
The way that Lucy mentions George after the kiss shows that the kiss had brought back memories of George and shown Lucy how different the two men are.
Chapter 12
"only a pond...the waters had flooded te surrounding grass, which showed like a beautiful emerald path"
"tha evening and that night the water ran away. On the morrow the pool had shrunk to its old size and lost it's glory"
" water, sky, evergreens, a wind - these things not even the seasons can touch, and surely they lie beyond the intrusion of man."
"he regarded himself as he dressed. Barefoot, bare chested, radiant and personable against the shadowy woods" - this is the first time that we see George truly happy and it is because he has just emerged himself in nature and freedom.
Chapter 14
"from far, from eve and morning,
And you twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither: here am I."
"You love George! And after this lomg preamble the three words burst against Lucy, like waves fro. The open sea."
"how dare you! Gasped Lucy, with the roaring of waters In her ears"
"that love is of the body; not the body, but of the body"
"the song died away; they heard the river, besting down the snows of winter into the mediterranean" cold to warm
Sticking to social class and culture
Chapter 4
"the desire for education and social advancement - in this there is something not wholly vile."
Lucy views Charlotte with "admirable delicacy"
"She recalled the free, pleasant life of her home, where she was allowed to do anything where nothing ever happened to her."
Chapter 5
But she had a feeling that Charlotte and her shopping were preferable to george Emerson."
Chapter 6
The way that mr eager speaks Italian means that he ruins the melodius Tongue so that "it resembled nothing so much as an acid whisteling fountain which played higher and higher."
Chapter 10
" but in italy, where anyone who chides may warm himself in equality, as in the sun, this conception of life vanished."
"she felt there was no one whom she might not get to like, that social barriers were irremovable, doubtless, not particularly high. You could jump over them..."
Passion and love
Chapter 5
"The well-known world had broken up, and there emerged Florence, a magical city where people though and did the most extraordinary things. Was there more in her Frank beauty than me the eye - the power to evoke passions, good and bad, and to bring them speedily to a fulfilment?"
Chapter 6
Once again Forster uses symbolism from mythology; Phaeton - in Greek mythology is the god who stole apollos chariot and caused a huge fire as he lost control of the chariot that pulled the sun therefore he symbolises fire, passion and excitement.
Phaeton has bought a lover with him however he pretends as if she is his sister. The lover is called Persephone she is even referred to as a "goddess". In mythology Persephone is cursed to live in the under world for half the year and is only at allowed out at the beginning of spring. She therefore represents the appreciation of nature and beauty and life. "the goddess was allowed to mount beside the god" The fact that mr eager separates the couple shows his disapproval of passion and the true meaning of nature. Mr Emerson on the other hand dexlared that "the lover on no account should be separated" "if we part them it's more like sacrilege than anything I know"
"courage...courage and love"contrasts with eaters "courage and faith"
Chapter 9
"such romance I have is that of the inglese Italiano"
"passion should believe itself irrestible" "it should forget civility and consideration and other uses of a refined nature"
The kiss is described as a "salutation"
Chapter 12
"it is fate. Everything is fate. We are flung together by Fate - flung together drawn apart . The twelve winds blow us - we settle nothing" - nature controls.
Chapter 13
"miss Bartlett, in deed, though not in word had taight the girl that this our life contains nothing satisfactory" she applied "this to her lover"
Chapter 14
"love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the worlds enemy, and she must stifle it"
"but I met you again when all the world is glorious water and sun. As you came through the wood I saw that nothing else mattered. I called. I wante to live and have my chance of joy."
" when love comes, that is reality" "passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity,mandate the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand."
Mr emerson "differed from mr beebe chiefly by his acknowledgement of passion"
"now it is all dark. Now beauty and passion seem never to have existed. I know. But remember the mountains ore florence and the view"
"youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaeton then announced passion required, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this"
Being a contained woman
Chapter 6
" in an on manner he had shown that he wished to continue their intimacy. She had refused, not because she disliked him, but because she did not know what had happened, and suspected that he did know. And that frightened her. "
"it is defeat you have separated to people who were happy"
"Lucy had a spasm of envy"'at the two lovers being openly loving towards each other.
"she only felt at ease among those to whom she felt indifferent"
Chapter 7
"real menace belongs to the drawing room"
Chater 9
"Cecil laughed at her feminine inconsequence"
" her brow was wrinkled and she still looked furiously cross - the result, he concluded, of too many moral gymnastics."
"the very afternoon that Lucy had been acquired by him"
"he was delighted by her admirable simplicity"
"she shook off the subject as to difficult for a girl"
"for he believed that woman rever men for their manliness"
Chapter 10
"for Italy was offering her the most priceless of all possessions - her Own soul"
"Cecil was absent-one did not play bumble puppy when he was there"
Chapter 11
"at last she longed for attention, as a woman should, and looked up to him because he was a man"
Chapter 12
"and yet you will tell me that the sexes are equal"
"I tell you they will be"-mr Emerson
"we shall enter it when we no longer despise our bodies"
"we despise the body less than women do"
"in this" (not despising our bodies) not in other things - we men are ahead. We despise the body less than women do. But not until we are comrades (equal) shall we enter the garden."
"this desire to govern a woman -it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together before they enter the garden"
"every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike."
"commanded cecil' who always felt he must lead a woman"
Chapter 13
"nothing roused miss honeychurch so much as litrature in the hands of females" "if books must be written let them be written by men" women are supposed to be "mounding their house and their children."
Chapter 14
"charm not argument was to be her forte."
"love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the worlds enemy, and she must stifle it"
Chapter 17
Superficiality
Chapter 6
"the narrowness and superficiality of the Anglo Saxon tourist is nothing less than a menace"
"in the very height of their emotion they knew it to be unmanky or unladylike."
Chapter 9
"a clergymen that does have fences, and the most dreadful ones, is mr eager ... He was truly insincere .... He was a snob, and somconceited and he did say te most unkind things"
"he longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a womans power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant . But possibly rant is a sign of vitality: it mars the beautiful creature, but shows she is alive. After a moment, he contemplated her flushed face and excited gestures with. Certain approval. He fore bore to repress the sources of youth"
Chapter 13
"She had never imagined one who would be happy and greet her with the shout of the morning star."
Chapter 14
"charm not argument was to be her forte."
"every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike."
Truth
Chapter 6
"he pressed his fingertips to his forehead and then pushed them towards her as if oozing with visible extract of knowledge."
- Italians know real knowledge, not unimportant academia.
"Italians are born knowing the way."
Chapter 7
"I want to be truthful,' she whispered 'it is so hard to be truthful."
Chapter 9
"lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant"
Chapter 13
"there were too many ghosts about. The original ghost - that touch of her lips on her cheek- has surely been laid long ago; it could be nothing to her that a man had kissed her on a mountain once. "
"how would she fight against ghosts? For a moment the visible world faded and memories and emotions alone seemed real."
Chapter 14
" when love comes, that is reality" "passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity,mandate the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand."
Chapter 19
"yes, for we fight for more than love or pleasure: there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count."
Naivety
Chapter 10
"life so far as she troubled to conceive it, was a circle of rich, pleasant people, with identical interests and identical foes"
Chapter 14
"every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike."
Beauty and delicacy
"no he is not tactful, yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who don things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?"
"beautiful? Are not beauty and delicacy the same thing?"
"so one would have thought,' said the other helplessly 'but things are so difficult, I sometimes think."
Chapter 10
"they found the whole room a mass of blue- vases and jugs"
"so ungentlemanly and yet so beautiful"
"a goodly, if not good young man"
Chapter 13
"he is easily upset by ugly things" this leads to him appearing to be uncivil and rude
"so the grittiness went out of life. It generally did at windy corner."
Chapter 14
"but once in the open air, she paused. Some emotion - pity, terror, love, but the emotion was strong-seized her. She was aware of autumn!"
Spontaneity
The way that the emersons offer their rooms to them without any preamble
Chapter 6
"the ground sloped sharply into the view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems... The primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth"
"he contemplated her, as one whonhad fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy In her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in waves"
"he stepped quickly forward and kissed her"
"miss bartlett stood brown against the view"
Chapter 7
"all her sensations, her spasms of courage, her moments of unreasonable joy, her mysterious discontent, should be carefully laid beforeher cousin."
- her feelings and thoughts which are personal must me analysed by her cousin.
"persephone who spends half her life in the grave - she could reflect it also. Not so these English. They gain knowledge slowly' and perhaps too late."
Chapter 9
"he became self-conscious and kept glancing around to see if they were observed"
"she gave such a businesslike lift to her veil"
"may I now?" "he was conscious of nothing but absurdities" "he found time to wish that he could recoil"
"as he touched her, his gold pince-nez became dislodged and was flattened between them."
"it had been a failure. Pssion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all other curses of a refined nature."
Chapter 10
"in this circle one thought, married and died.
Chapter 12
"it is fate. Everything is fate. We are flung together by Fate - flung together drawn apart . The twelve winds blow us - we settle nothing" - nature controls.
"they forgot Italy and botany and fate. They began to play"
Chapter 13
How often had Lucy rehearsed this bow, this interview! But she had always rehearsed then indoors, and with a certain amount of accessories"
" she reflected that it is...impossible to rehearse life"
"all our carefully planned gestures mean nothing, or mean too much." - like gatsby
Chapter 14
"every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike."
Propriety
Chapter 7
" a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring out good, if we judge from those who have used them most."
- people with most propriety are normally the people who are the least happy ie miss Bartlett
Chapter 9
"it makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in or whether er are fenced out by barriers of others"
"now, a clergyman that I do hate...a clergyman that does have fences, and the most dreadful ones, is mr eager" she describes him as conceited and insincere.
"I tell you who has no fences as you call them and that Is mr beebe"
chapter 10
"a woman who desired, not a wider dwelling room, but equality beside the man she loved"
Chapter 12
"attempting the tense yet nonchalant expression that is suitable for ladies on such an occasion" - when they are confronted with such joy and freedom they are expected to repress any happy emotions they get from it
Chapter 14
"but as the week wore on, more of her defences fell and she entertained an image that had physical beauty."
Chapter 17
She "joined the vast armies of the benightedm who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catchwords. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters-the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety shows cracks, their eit becomes cynicism, their unsefishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort everywhere they go."
"Lucy entered this army when she pretended to George that she did not love him"
Apprieciating art for what it truly is
Chapter
Capter 9 is called "Lucy as a work of art"
Chapter 10
"no, you dont' she snapped 'you don't know what the word means.' he stared at her,and felt that she had failed to be leonardoesque"
Chapter 12
"the three gentlemen rotated in the pool breast high, after the fashion of the nymphs I. Götterdämmerung."
Chapter 14
"for the first time since they ere engaged. From a Leonardo she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art"
"you may understand beautiful things, but dont know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I wont be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are glorious, and you hide them from me."
"in January he would rescue his Leonardo from this stupefying twaddle"
Academia
Chapter 14
"is it that love and youth matter intellectually. "
"you may understand beautiful things, but dont know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I wont be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are glorious, and you hide them from me."
" a volume of old testament commentaries. Holding it up to her eyes, she said: I have no wish to discuss Italy or any other subject connected with your son."
