A Room With A View

A Room with a View written by E.M. Forster is a story about love, conflict, and finding your way. The story is set in both Florence Italy and England during the Edwardian era where societal standards were different and the upper class were unforgiving on lower class peasantry. Lucy Honeychurch is an exception, as a naïve, sheltered young women brought to Italy by her older cousin, Charlotte Bartlett. She begins to learn the struggles of love through unexpected encounters and memorable people. Lucy’s journey beings in Italy as she begins to fall for lower class man, George Emery. Her feelings for George are often masked by the expectations put upon her by her family to find a suitable man like upperclassman and fiancé, Cecil. This pulling of Lucy’s personality in different directions is captured by the author’s use of the references to renowned artists such as Mozart and Beethoven. The main function of the intertextual use
The use of these well-known artists enables the audience to follow closely to the feelings and personality of Lucy Honeychurch without the authors need to give in detail her thoughts and emotions over the span of the book. After using the famous musical references and their well-known pieces it allows the reader to distinguish the needed emotion that the author is trying to capture by essentially feeling it with Lucy as she plays these pieces per her ever-changing emotion and personality. The main function of the intertextual reference was to display the complexity of Lucy Honeychurch’s personality and the author could do so by using these musical references to toys with the audience’s feelings to get them to relate to the personality of Lucy and her struggles of becoming her own person, becoming equal with the men, and discovering the importance of loving the body you were created