Brideshead Revisited
Background: Evelyn Waugh
He wrote Brideshead Revisited in the year he was resting from an injury in the war 1944
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AO2 and notes:
A personal Arcadia - the past: Nostalgia (Mourns for the aristocratic Catholic family)
Hedonism - life life for pleasure
Aesthetes - pleasure of the senses
Sojourn - temporary journey where you return from
Aesthetic education - responding to life through the senses
Hamartia - Tragic act (genre tragedy)
Sychophants - Rex - wants to get with the aristocracy, Sam grass sucking up
Ingratiation - Celia and getting on people's good side, using her charm to get her things
Analeptic structure - everything has already happened
Teleology - Growing into a full version of itself (Sebastian doesn't do this)
- Negative Lexis/Tone: "grey" "brutal" "desolation" "destruction"
- Extended metaphor: "felt as a husband might feel..."
- Triadic structure: "chill bonds of law and duty and custom"
- Nostalgia: "Oxford in those days..."
- Antithesis: "enchanted garden in the heart of that grey city"
- Foreshadowing: "ominous chill"
- Hyperbole: "gravely injured, come at once"
- Narrative shift: "Julia described the scene to me"
- Prolepsis: "ten years later she said this to me on the Atlantic"
- Metaphor: "bubbled and broke into scattered flames"
- Pathetic Fallacy: "the snow was beginning to shift" "storm"
- Symbolism: tortoise, the candle flame, the swan, Aloysius
Locations
- Where do Sebastian and Charles go on holiday? Venice for 2 weeks in September
- Where does Lord Marchmain live? Venice, Italy
- Where do Sebastian and Samgrass travel? Tour of the Levant
- Where does Samgrass lose Sebastian? Sebastian escapes to Constantinople and they meet up in Syria
- Where does Rex want to send Sebastian? Zurich
- Where does Sebastian meet Kurt? Tangier then moves to Fez
- Where does Charles go to find Sebastian when Lady Marchmain is dying? Fez
- Where does Cordelia go with the Ambulance? The war in Spain
- Where does Sebastian end up in the end of the book? North Africa in a monastery near Carthage
- Where does Julia end up? Palestine with Cordelia
Timeline
(Before the novel begins)
(Arcadian days)
(Sebastian's decline)
(Beginning of Book 2)
(Leaving the Marchmain's behind)
(Back story to Book 3)
(Affairs begin)
(The end)
Quizzes
Shmoop Quiz: Who said what