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A review by sidharthvardhan
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
3.0
Kind of like movie 'Titanic' minus the setting in ship and the happy ending. A young woman choking in the boredom and hypocrisy of English life is attracted to a man from another world.
There are a bunch of metaphors. The view the room offers is the temptation to escape. Lucy's name means light, Cecil, her fiance's name means dark or blind, may be because unlike Lucy yearning for view, he likes sitting in dark. Lucy is not sure about whether she wants to stay engaged with him or not. I mean look at the names! I might have liked it more if it hadn't been such an overused theme. And then the ridiculous love triangle! How many women in fiction break off or were tempted to break off with their sick or ordinary significant others - Lady Chatterlay, Emma Bovary, Lucy, Rose, Edna Ponteller.
There are a bunch of metaphors. The view the room offers is the temptation to escape. Lucy's name means light, Cecil, her fiance's name means dark or blind, may be because unlike Lucy yearning for view, he likes sitting in dark. Lucy is not sure about whether she wants to stay engaged with him or not. I mean look at the names! I might have liked it more if it hadn't been such an overused theme. And then the ridiculous love triangle! How many women in fiction break off or were tempted to break off with their sick or ordinary significant others - Lady Chatterlay, Emma Bovary, Lucy, Rose, Edna Ponteller.