Vile Bodies
The comments about Monet's painting, Impression: Sunrise, gives an insight to the artistic vision in Waugh's Vile Bodies and Greene's Brighton Rock. Monet's Impression: Sunrise is a famous and prime example of Impressionism. The impressionist style of painting is characterized by "concentration on the general impression produced by a scene as an object and the use of unmixed primary colors and small strokes to simulate actual reflected light." (WebMuseum) Impressionist paintings use light and color to imitate a certain setting or reality. In both novels, Vile Bodies and Brighton Rock, there is an impressionistic feel to them. There is a sense of darkness and unclearness as one reads along, but have an element of 'light' that is present throughout. The 'light' in these novels are represented through characters. In Vile Bodies, the story is one of nothing
ness, meaninglessness. None of the characters have an objective reality, it's all subjective. The reality is different to each character. There are concessions to nothing outside the self. Their lives are portrayed as wasted, as if there is no other purpose to them than to be part of a society that emphasizes the importance of money and social gatherings, in other words, a social satire. One source of light in this novel is Mrs. Ape and her angels. They serve as a religious element in a world that is existentialism at its' best. The comment made by Castagnary, in the test booklet, "They are impressionists in that they do not render a landscape, but the sensation produced by the landscape...There they take leave of reality and enter the realms of idealism", has a connection to the life portrayed in Vile Bodies. The landscape sensation, which is the world and lives of the characters, is produced b
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