Symbolical Values in E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View Boglarka Toth College

High expectations coming from the external world always happened to cause a carefully hidden diversity between what people really felt inside and what they actually showed at the same time towards the ever observing gaze of their community. At the very beginning of the twentieth century, just before the shocking and bloody reality of the First World War in Europe, this differentiation was represented on a quite immense level by the seemingly still immovable barriers between social classes in England. While the Edwardian era was being formed around the English nation, the lasting effects of the former Queen Victoria could also be experienced, especially among the representatives of the upper-middle class who believed strongly in society’s moral codes. A quite overall, however maybe a slightly exaggerated, description about their behaviour was published in an iconic work by Edward Morgan Forster in 1908 called A Room with a View. This novel is not just deeply concerned with the everyday life of the upper-middle class but raises attention to the ones who want to leave behind this lifestyle and instead follow their inner emotional needs. The doubtful protagonist lady, Miss Lucy Honeychurch experiences many new values and feelings...