A Room With A View By E. M. Forster

There are moments where our surroundings bring out certain emotions in us, sometimes impacting the way we live and view life. Robert Butler portrays this use of setting in the story "Christmas 1910" through the life of a girl named Abigail. All throughout this piece, the author is symbolizing how the country setting is affecting Abigails life, conveying loneliness and feeling disconnected with the outside world.

Although the isolation that defines much of Jane Eyre’s life seems only alienating, it also proves to be enriching, for Jane uses that isolation as a basis to truly appreciate the love she discovers when her family is revealed to her after she gains a large inheritance from a distant relative. She would not have been able to truly find and value the love in her family if not for the despair experienced early in life, as that despair led her to her family. She uses her loneliness to gather strength when it is most needed, allowing her to totally heal from the trauma of the red-room and enjoy the eternal warmth her new loving life

In William Barney’s article, “The Quest for Room,” he analyzes the differing opinions between the North and South regarding the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired Western territories. The author argues that the West would have been important to slaveholders as a place to expand slavery if the territories had not been free-soil. The reason for this article was to show us how prominent the sectional differences were in the nineteenth century because of the argument over slavery. This, in turn, led to the secession of the Southern states from the Union as they formed the Confederacy; this dug the nation into a deep-pitted civil war.

The Room, by Russell E. Mullen, is an account of the author's racial journey. Russell is a Caucasian raised in Central Florida, and being a baby boomer born in 1957, he experienced the racial conflicts that existed during the civil rights movement. As a child, he constantly heard negative comments about Black Americans from most of his relatives and other people around him, but he just couldn't understand the reason for the racial discrimination. His father was the only one he knew that never said anything bad about the African-American people and this got him more confused. Consequently, he sought answers to many questions popping in his head.

In the novel A Room with a View there are two main settings that not only contrast in location but also in atmosphere. The author, E.M. Forster uses Florence, Italy and Summer Street, England to exaggerate the differences in the main character’s state of mind influenced by the people and places around her. The restricting culture of early 1900 Europe in which the story takes place also plays a role in the varying settings as the author strives to convey his purpose.

James Joyce’s 1914 collection of 15 short stories The Dubliners has the continuous theme of money which further dwells into the idea of class systems, how colonies became a dichotomy, and how in the end, the colonists were nearly the same. Since Joyce writes these stories in the early 20th Century, there has been a large history behind colonization and the life that comes with it. In using everyday examples or little segments of the average day, Joyce expresses the idea and components of the class system in Dublin which shows the distinction and yet the similarities between the impoverished and the well to do.

In the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Meursault the protagonist, becomes drawn into a “senseless” murder that has to face the absurdity of life and because of his actions, Meursault is presented as a danger due to his lack of “morality” to society. Meursault who is not able to take control of his life but respond to what life offers him believes in the simplicity of life. He tries to understand the living through logic and objectivity, which ultimately turns futile, as he himself cannot maintain proper control over his thoughts and emotions. From the interactions between Marie, to the murder of the Arab, and the meeting with the Chaplain, Meursault overcomes his indifferent views to form an opinion about what life really means. The central theme presented by Camus is how the threat of mortality becomes a catalyst for understanding the significance of life.

A Room With A View by E.M. Forster and The Remains of the Day by Tovah Martin

We live in the age of constant technological innovation and endless information; in which we are so connected and dependent on the technology we use that we sometimes don’t even realize how much we’re relying on it. In The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr, Carr defines automation as, “the use of computers and software to do things we used to do ourselves,” and argues that there are daunting consequences to our reliance on technology (Carr 1). In his book, Nicholas Carr sets up three arguments related to automation, tacit knowledge, and the idea of work. His main arguments throughout the novel are that humans are overestimating the benefits of automation, losing tacit knowledge through our reliance on technology, and

In the short story "The Guest" by Albert Camus, Daru's predicament goes hand in hand with France's difficulties and Camus' self-appreciation. In the short story “The Guest” we are introduced to see Daru’s concern to attend the political situation in the French North

By definition, protest is a form of objection or disapproval against a certain law or situation. In the world where sin and evilness never rest, protesting is essentially one of the many ways that Christians and non-Christians can temporarily preserve righteousness. Protesting is not merely an action that Christians should do nor it is against the teaching of the Bible. Protest serves as an opportunity provider in Christians’ life so that they can bring hope to the world as ambassador of Christ, spread the Gospel, glorify Him.

     A Room with a View, by Edward Morgan Forster, presents the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman belonging to English “high society.'; Foster places this young maiden in a state of conflict between the snobbery of her class, the “suitable and traditional'; views and advice offered by various family members and friends, and her true heart’s desire. This conflict “forces Lucy Honeychurch to choose between convention and passion (Bantam Intro-back cover),'; and throws her into a state of internal struggle, as she must sift through the elements of her “social conditioning'; and discern them from her true emotions and desires. Foster develops and utilizes Lucy’s internal struggle as a means of transforming her from

It is very unusual to disagree that Nora, the main character in Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll House”, is an uneducated lady. For example, she seems too play dumb in the beginning when receiving money from her husband, also acting like a stereotypical housewife in those times. We slowly get to see her intelligence when hiding the macaroons and coming up with lies right on the spot without hesitation. I want to argue that even though I do not support her lies and hiding secrets from her own husband, it obviously shows that she can play dumb just to get what she wants in life. As a housewife who must secretly do things behind her husband’s back just to enjoy a few macaroons, you can tell right off the bat that Helmer loves the fact that he can control Nora as if she was one of the dolls in the house. Soon Nora begins to show her true colors as Helmer pushes her to the brink of destruction.

In a Room with a View, by E.M Forster, there are many contrasting settings where the story takes place. Every different place can be associated with different feelings, thoughts, and developments. One of the more obvious setting contrasts are Florence and Summer Street. Florence represents things like passion and growth while Summer Street has more of a discontented feeling.

A Room with a View: Breaking Out of the Victorian Era In the novel, A Room with a View, written by Edward Morgan Forster in 1908, a young girl, Lucy Honeychurch, goes on a trip to Italy with her overprotective cousin, Charlotte. They both possess old fashioned Victorian views. Over the course of the novel, Lucy's character changes and she develops a more Edwardian or modern view on life and moves away from the old fashioned Victorian view. In this novel Lucy is more influenced by the characters with modern Edwardian views than old fashioned Victorian views.