![]() The novel can be seen to have been built around the problem of how the knower looks at the known, how one person looks at another, how man looks at nature, and how the artist looks at life. “And it is exactly this problem which works its way through the novel on three levels human relations, metaphysics and aesthetics. In answer to a question of Lily about the content of his father’s books, Andrew replies, “Subject and object and the nature of reality”. ![]() But a closer study of the novel shows that this either or strategy is not adequate for dealing with the multiplicity of points of view through which each character is seen in the first section, the descending and the ascending movement of the second section, and the shifting simultaneity of events which shapes the third. ![]() The full significance of the trip to the lighthouse is not grasped. These examples could be multiplied, but the dominant tendency is to interpret the thematic conflict as an antithesis of two mutually exclusive terms, one of which must be rejected in favour of the other. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |