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Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
I listened to an abridged version of this a few years ago and didn't like it because it had no build up... Yeah, I'm an idiot. ANYWAY. Very pleased I decided to use this in my MA thesis because I definitely enjoyed this reading experience much more.
Brideshead Revisited is the story of Charles Ryder and his connection to the very Catholic Flyte family. Starting off with his strong friendship with the troubled Sebastian when he's at Oxford, we get to see Charles get all the more tangled up in the family, whether he wishes to or not. Waugh touches upon the privileges that seem so obvious to the characters and that they are denied as the War approaches, this is a satirical story about class, religion, family and youth.
The more I think about it the more I appreciate all the various stages of this story, even though I, being me, enjoyed the university buddies turned sensual summer companions the most. I found myself aching to leave the characters when I turned the last page, but I also felt disappointed that we never got to reconnect with certain characters (you know who I mean). But in a way I really like how Waugh painted a picture of someone being pulled into a whole family and not just the one person. He was the forerunner, he was youth. She symbolized another stage of life. And who knows, maybe Charles will fidn his way back to them after the War. It certainly doesn't seem impossible.
Brideshead Revisited is the story of Charles Ryder and his connection to the very Catholic Flyte family. Starting off with his strong friendship with the troubled Sebastian when he's at Oxford, we get to see Charles get all the more tangled up in the family, whether he wishes to or not. Waugh touches upon the privileges that seem so obvious to the characters and that they are denied as the War approaches, this is a satirical story about class, religion, family and youth.
The more I think about it the more I appreciate all the various stages of this story, even though I, being me, enjoyed the university buddies turned sensual summer companions the most. I found myself aching to leave the characters when I turned the last page, but I also felt disappointed that we never got to reconnect with certain characters (you know who I mean). But in a way I really like how Waugh painted a picture of someone being pulled into a whole family and not just the one person. He was the forerunner, he was youth. She symbolized another stage of life. And who knows, maybe Charles will fidn his way back to them after the War. It certainly doesn't seem impossible.