A Room With A View by Edward Morgan Forster Essay -- EM Forster A Roo

The Subtle HeroineA Room with a View, by Edward Morgan Forster, presents the twaddle of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman belonging to English high society. shelter places this young maiden in a area of conflict amid the snobbery of her class, the suitable and traditional views and advice offered by various family members and friends, and her true hearts 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 roll in the hay them from her true emotions and desires. Foster develops and utilizes Lucys internal struggle as a means of transforming her from a petty young woman to a keen heroine.Lucy Honeychurch is introduced to the reader as a somewhat petty young woman, plain ignorant to the ways of the world, who is being chaperoned by her cousin, Charlotte Barlett, while vacationing in Italy. Numerous conver sations over matters of dress, the acceptability of various pieces of furniture, and others vacations, intimate the snobbish nature of both Lucy and Charlotte. In fact, matters of convention encompass Lucys life until George Emersons caddish, yet never the less passionate, display of fancy in the bed of violets throws her into an internal struggle of transformation. Georges powerful advice, bravery and love (p.66), uttered just before he kisses Lucy, gives ...