The Go-Between
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- Created on: 04-04-18 13:04
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- The Go-Between
- AO3 CONTEXT
- L.P Hartley is upper-middle class and lived in a country estate
- He is homosexual
- During WW1, he went to Oxford to learn historic literature
- TGB is a biography- based on childhood trip
- During WW1, he went to Oxford to learn historic literature
- He is homosexual
- Victorian era
- Year: 1900 - time of hope & uncertainty
- Boer War
- Epilogue/ Prologue = had been 2 world wars
- Patriarchal society -role of a woman
- Middle-class wealthiest due to industrial revolution but looked to upper-class, hereditary
- Can marry into upper-class to raise family's social ranking
- Family influence + expectations to marry well
- Contrast between date of Leo reading the diary & time of story - naivety & adolescence deteriorates with Leo + society
- L.P Hartley is upper-middle class and lived in a country estate
- AO1
- Themes
- Loss of innocence
- Love and jealousy/ guilt
- Sexual love/ passion
- Paternal/ maternal love
- Class
- Marriage
- Death
- Ms Maudsley treats Marian as a valuable commodity
- Star signs
- Marian = virgin
- Trimmingham = the archen
- Leo = lion
- Characterisation
- Marian
- Manipulative
- Victim - society
- Beautiful
- Belladonna - poisonous
- Ted
- Victim
- Water-carrier
- Leo
- repressed
- naieve
- father-less
- Marcus
- spoiled
- sheltered
- mummy's boy
- sly
- rude
- Ms Maudsley
- social climber
- jealous
- status
- controlling
- Trimmingham
- Solid
- brave (war)
- upper-class
- Leo's mother
- Psychologically significant
- Marian
- Themes
- AO5
- Brandham hall is beautiful from the West but from the back its crumbling - facade
- Psychoanalytical approach: Leo's attitude towards his mother is idealistic due to Jung's mother complex: Leo idolizes his mother as the perfect woman so he copies her language style "she had two phrases, wrong and very wrong"
- Negative mother complex = want to be nothing alike - Marian & Ms Maudsley
- "Dream" as wish fulfillment = Frued
- AO2
- Diary = symbol of Leo's memory - so much has been repressed
- Narrative structure
- Framed narrative
- Prologue/ epilogue - narrated first person by adult Leo
- Perspective on the effects of what has happened
- Flashback (analeptic narrative)
- Perspective from a difference
- Consider "real" and "imagined" memories - "the past is a foreign country they do things differently there"
- Repressed memory (Freud)
- Framed narrative
- Time & Place
- Norwich
- Escape
- Leo falls in love with Marian
- Greenhouse
- hot, intense tension
- Can be seen
- Belladonna
- Brandham hall
- Rules
- Old money (own
- New money (rented)
- society
- chapter 2 beginning - facade
- Ted's farm
- masculine
- danger - gun & haystack
- freedom
- no rules (leo's fall down the haystack)
- River
- Borders Hall & farm - Ted = watercarrier
- lust
- water = always sexual
- Nature
- Untitled
- Cricket pitch
- microcosm
- Chuch
- society
- Norwich
- AO3 CONTEXT
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