A Room with a View is a love story of romantic and marital variety. Ms. Lucy Honeychurch, at the center of the novel, is a normal girl faced with love that runs the opposite of the social conventions of the time period. Lucy felt she must overcome herself before she could follow her instinct. "Passion should believe itself irresistable (105)" is a phrase that best describes the theme of A Room with a View. Mr. George Emerson changing rooms at the pension, kissing Lucy in the violets, and speaking the truth about Cecil are all examples of his unorthodox actions that are so startling to Lucy.
Forster first identified the social differences between Lucy and the Emersons in the first chapter with the argument over a room with a view. The Emersons were quick to give up their room with a view to Lucy and Miss Bartlett because it had a view in exchange for Lucy's room, which did not have a v
Further embellishing the relationship between Lucy and George, Forster sealed the truth between them with a kiss. The decorated scene, "violets ran down in rivulets... the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth (66)," is adorned with violets and water, two sexually suggestive ornaments. George then, "stepped quickly forward and kissed her (66)," letting his courage and love direct him towards truth, as the buggy driver had instructed Lucy. This kiss is obviously a social convention that Lucy was not used to, and is another attempt by George to show Lucy that, "Passion should believe itself irresistible."
iew. The argument presented over the rooms is meant for a contrast between the "genteel" Miss Bartlett and Lucy, and the "ill-bred" Emersons. Forster also foreshadows an important distinction, "she had an odd feeling that whenever these ill-bred tourists spoke th
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