#George Emerson

[elisaenglish]

He's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

#a room with a view #helena bonham carter #lucy honeychurch #julian sands #george emerson #patterns of distraction #all eternal things #love in a time of... #a murmur of fire #feel you on the inside #beauty's where you find it #perfect now #all i need #literary sensibilities #1985 #elisa english #elisaenglish

[greengableslover]

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2022 Day 4 ❥ Favorite Film

What is it about Italy that makes lady novelists reach such summits of absurdity? A Room With A View (1985) dir. James Ivory

#a room with a view #perioddramaweek2022 #perioddramaedit #periodedit #filmedit #userbennet #userkristen #catalinabaylors #userpavlova #userperioddrama #userdraconis #lucy honeychurch #george emerson #helena bonham carter #julian sands #*film #*

[shutupcrime]

Idk how to describe it, but George Emerson and Mr Darcy are on exact opposite ends of romantic lead spectrum yet both possess insane amounts of autistic swag just executed in wildly different ways

#pride and prejudice #a room with a view #Jane Austen #em forster #george emerson #lizzie bennet #mr Darcy #helena bonham carter #maggie smith #Judi dench #Maurice #call me by your name #pride and predjudice 2005 #fitzwilliam darcy #Daniel day Lewis #Julian sands

[and--everything]

My two favourite kiss scene

F**king adorable parallels. Love both these couples!!! Arghhhh!

what's up with lovers and bushes XD

#a room with a view #northanger abbey #best kissing scene #period romance #helena bonham carter #julian sands #jj feild #felicity jones #catherine morland #henry tilney #lucy honeychurch #george emerson #em forster #jane austen #aesthetic movies #aesthetic scenes #must watch #guilty pleasures #must watch period dramas #must read period romances #tumblr hidden gems

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Read in 2022 (3/?)

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

#read in 2022 #a room with a view #e. m. forster #litedit #classiclitedit #classic literature #book aesthetic #edwardian era #historical fiction #british literature #lucy honeychurch #george emerson #mystuff #my edit #books2022 #thinking about them... #the middle pic is a renoir painting. top pic is from the 1985 film

[angleshades]

Very upset to hear that lovely Julian Sands is missing...

He's a hugely experienced climber but my heart sank when I heard that his car has now been removed from the trailhead. As a person who wants to die with my boots on, I hugely respect his choice to take risks, but it's hard on families. I hope he makes it through.

Film poster image from A Room With a View - Merchant Ivory Productions

#julian sands #a room with a view #merchant ivory #em forster #george emerson

[weepynymph]

You know what I love about comparing these scenes? Is that yes the visual parallels are 😍😍😍 and the similarities between Rory and Lucy, and Jess and George are so so perfect down them standing in exactly the same places-

HOWEVER, there is one way in which actually their roles in this scene are actually REVERSED.

In ARWAV we see Lucy observe George while she remains unseen by him, it’s this lovely moment where she just gets to indulge in how beautiful she finds him and look without being seen. And then, of course, he turns and sees her and is so overwhelmed by her beauty in return that he rushes up to kiss her.

Meanwhile in GG it’s JESS who is observing RORY for a moment before she turns and sees him. The roles get swapped and then to top it all off its RORY who kisses JESS. 

It’s like taking that scene from ARWAV and saying ‘what if Lucy kissed George?’ I love it SO MUCH!!!

#literati #a room with a view #rory x jess #lucy x george #rory gilmore #Lucy Honeychurch #jess mariano #george emerson #LOOK AT THE HAND PLACEMENT IN THE KISSES #jess is literally on lucy's side and rory is on george's!!! #like why go to the trouble of drawing a direct visual parallel to then flip their positions huh??? #there is a distinct possibility i am reading too much into this but i dont caaaare #comparing these hopeless romantics gives me joy in a joyless world #in conclusion gilmore girls is a room with a view fanfiction and i will not be taking questions

[butchjess]

A Room with a View (1986) + Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) Part 3/3: It’s Fate! Everything is Fate!

#literati #jess mariano #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #a room with a view #georgelucy #george emerson #lucy honeychurch #not exactly FINISHED w these parallels i loove to talk about them but im finally done w these lol

[dumbassdumas]

Mr. Emerson from A Room with a View has so much autism swag

#a room with a view #classic lit memes #george emerson #mr Emerson

[frankidacre]

Sometimes I think about how Titanic and a Room With a View are both about young, reserved, wealthy 1910s-era girls with curly ginger hair who’s traveling and gets caught in a love triangle between her wealthy, arrogant fiancé with dark hair and a random middle-parted, free spirited blond boy who wears suspenders. Also both protagonists have judgmental moms 😭

#a room with a view #movies #cinema #titanic #titanic 1997 #george emerson #film analysis #coincidence? i think not

[transsexualcoriolanus]

mr emerson from a room with a view is ‘blissfully unaware of social conventions and his perceived violations of them and doesn’t care to know’ neurodivergent and george emerson is ‘painfully aware his entire life of how different he is and unable to attempt to fit in as a result’ neurodivergent

#george emerson is me next question #a room with a view #george emerson #em forster

[ultra-rockart]

Two Characters, One Man

Two characters who are so strikingly different at first glance were, in fact, modeled after one man.

Reading Prof. Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History, A New Life of E. M. Forster biography has been very enlightening.

George Emerson from A Room With A View and Clive Durham from Maurice were modeled after E.M. Forster's first love, H.O.M.

Forster started planning A Room With A View in 1902. Around that time, his platonic relationship with H.O.M began. H.O.M's name even appears in the first drafts of the novel--in the first scene. He is one of the guests seated at the table with Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin.

George is written how someone in love would write a character. He is idealistic, optimistic yet rebellious against conventions, and open-minded. He is critical of tradition and societal norms, deeply intelligent, and passionate. Like George, H.O.M, then a Cambridge student, "loved to épater the narrow-minded." As a Cambridge student, he had a hand in Forster's intellectual growth and development at Cambridge. Even sponsoring him into the Cambridge Apostles.

Forster took 5 years to write A Room With A View and eventually dedicated it to H.O.M. Forster always intended to dedicate the book to him but by this time he did so as a valedictory--a goodbye. He felt "cut off from H.O.M" who was already engaged or married by this time.

When he started writing Maurice, it was clear that something about their friendship had fundamentally changed, which deeply saddened Forster. He visited H.O.M and found him "morose and self-involved." It's also quite possible that H.O.M suffered from depression (I'm assuming here based on what I've read). He, like Clive, had a sort of nervous breakdown at some point. In the book, Clive had his nervous breakdown at 16. But the physical and emotional distance between them widened as the years went on.

But I always thought that Forster could write the initial relationship between Clive and Maurice so beautifully because those feelings still lived in him. He could draw from their waters and pour all of his longing and desire into fiction. It's probably why I think Clive and Maurice's relationship feels more real somehow.

However, Clive devolved in the story much like H.O.M does in Forster's life. He was one of the few that Forster showed the first drafts of Maurice and was devastated to find that H.O.M seemed indifferent to it. So heartbroken that Forster nearly "chucked it". Thus his treatment of Clive declines from the sting of heartbreak. Forster does admit to being "unfair" to Clive and went on to revise bits and pieces. But despite changes, they betray his disappointment and heartbreak over a friendship that had meant so much to him--a friendship he knew he could never get back.

I've read that there may be other characters that Forster modeled after him, but the two likely are Clive and George. Both are so different yet track the progression of a friendship/love affair from the promise and optimism of a new romance to ultimately disappointment and heartbreak. H.O.M is probably, IMHO, Forster's biggest muse in his writing. Not even his beloved Bob Buckingham, as he had already abandoned writing novels when they met.

Others say that while Forster didn't give them a happy ending in Maurice, he did in A Room With A View. Lucy is thought to be Forster's surrogate.

Upon hearing of H.O.M's passing in 1964, Forster was said to be devastated and mourned the loss of his first love saying "he was very beautiful at the beginning of the century," despite drifting apart decades earlier. (Wendy, Moffat - A Great Unrecorded History, A New Life of E. M. Forster)

#e.m. forster #maurice #maurice 1987 #a room with a view #clive durham #george emerson #Wendy Moffat's A Great Unrecorded History #A New Life of E. M. Forster

[theaskywalker]

A Room with a View (1985)

#a room with a view #edwardian #romance #film #helena bonham carter #julian sands #maggie smith #daniel day lewis #james ivory #e m forster #florence italy #lucy honeychurch #george emerson

[byronicherobracket]

The Byronic Hero Bracket: Qualifying Round Batch H #6

Cassandra Cain from DC Universe vs. George Emerson from A Room With A View

Reasons under the cut (spoilers for both)

(All sources from TV Tropes)

Cassandra Cain:

Cassandra Cain appears to be a straight example but becomes an aversion. Cass was raised by an assassin and gun for hire who wanted a partner he could mold into the perfect killer, and so raised her in the art of killing from a young age, which she saw as a game (including playing 'two for flinching' but with bullets); but when he took her for her first kill, however, she was traumatized from actually taking a life and became a Death Seeker who wanted to atone for her single murder, and is now unable to live a normal life thanks to being raised in a manner without spoken or written language (instead, she was raised to understand body language to make her a better fighter) and suffering from dyslexia on top of that. Despite all that she fully devotes herself to the cause of heroism under that Bat-symbol

George Emerson:

George Emerson in A Room with a View and its source material. This is lampshaded when Mr. Beebe finds a book of Byron in George's house and his only comment is "Exactly."

#character tournament #fandom tournament #tumblr tourney #tournament poll #tumblr polls #poll bracket #polls #fandom bracket #tumblr bracket #character bracket #byronic hero #cassandra cain #dc universe #george emerson #a room with a view

[blueheartbooks]

"A Breath of Fresh Air: E. M. Forster's 'A Room with a View'"

E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View" is a delightful exploration of love, freedom, and self-discovery set against the backdrop of Edwardian England and Italy. Published in 1908, the novel follows the journey of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman torn between societal expectations and her own desires for independence and fulfillment.

At its heart, "A Room with a View" is a coming-of-age story that resonates with timeless themes of identity and personal growth. From the picturesque hills of Florence to the genteel drawing rooms of England, Forster paints a vivid portrait of a young woman's awakening to the possibilities of life and love. Lucy's journey towards self-realization is both poignant and humorous, as she navigates the complexities of societal norms and her own inner turmoil.

Forster's prose is both elegant and accessible, imbuing the narrative with a sense of warmth and intimacy. The novel is filled with memorable characters, from the eccentric Emersons to the prim and proper Charlotte Bartlett. Through their interactions, Forster explores themes of class, gender, and cultural differences, challenging readers to question the arbitrary boundaries that divide society.

Central to the narrative is Lucy's evolving relationship with George Emerson, a free-spirited young man whose unconventional views on love and life challenge Lucy's preconceived notions. Their burgeoning romance unfolds with a delicate blend of humor and tenderness, as Lucy grapples with her feelings of attraction and the expectations placed upon her by society.

The novel's title itself serves as a metaphor for the dichotomy between convention and liberation. A "room with a view" symbolizes the desire for openness and freedom, a longing to break free from the constraints of societal expectations and embrace life's possibilities. For Lucy, it represents not only physical space but also the emotional and spiritual freedom she seeks to attain.

Throughout the novel, Forster skillfully juxtaposes the idyllic landscapes of Italy with the stifling propriety of Edwardian England, highlighting the contrast between spontaneity and restraint, passion and repression. Italy, with its vibrant culture and sense of vitality, serves as a catalyst for Lucy's transformation, while England represents the suffocating conformity of bourgeois society.

At its core, "A Room with a View" is a celebration of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend social barriers. Forster's timeless tale reminds us of the importance of staying true to ourselves and following our hearts, even in the face of societal pressure and expectations. With its charming characters, evocative settings, and poignant themes, "A Room with a View" remains a captivating and resonant work that continues to enchant readers more than a century after its publication.

E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View" is available in Amazon in paperback 18.99$ and hardcover 25.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 494

Language: English

Rating: 9/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

#E. M. Forster #A Room with a View #Edwardian England #Italy #Lucy Honeychurch #George Emerson #Love #Identity #Self-discovery #Social norms #Societal expectations #Romance #Freedom #Conformity #Individuality #Class differences #Gender roles #Cultural contrasts #Liberation #Repression #Relationships #Conflict #Coming-of-age #Society #Passion #Adventure #Travel #Emotional growth #Personal transformation #Symbolism

[blueheartbookclub]

"A Breath of Fresh Air: E. M. Forster's 'A Room with a View'"

E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View" is a delightful exploration of love, freedom, and self-discovery set against the backdrop of Edwardian England and Italy. Published in 1908, the novel follows the journey of Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman torn between societal expectations and her own desires for independence and fulfillment.

At its heart, "A Room with a View" is a coming-of-age story that resonates with timeless themes of identity and personal growth. From the picturesque hills of Florence to the genteel drawing rooms of England, Forster paints a vivid portrait of a young woman's awakening to the possibilities of life and love. Lucy's journey towards self-realization is both poignant and humorous, as she navigates the complexities of societal norms and her own inner turmoil.

Forster's prose is both elegant and accessible, imbuing the narrative with a sense of warmth and intimacy. The novel is filled with memorable characters, from the eccentric Emersons to the prim and proper Charlotte Bartlett. Through their interactions, Forster explores themes of class, gender, and cultural differences, challenging readers to question the arbitrary boundaries that divide society.

Central to the narrative is Lucy's evolving relationship with George Emerson, a free-spirited young man whose unconventional views on love and life challenge Lucy's preconceived notions. Their burgeoning romance unfolds with a delicate blend of humor and tenderness, as Lucy grapples with her feelings of attraction and the expectations placed upon her by society.

The novel's title itself serves as a metaphor for the dichotomy between convention and liberation. A "room with a view" symbolizes the desire for openness and freedom, a longing to break free from the constraints of societal expectations and embrace life's possibilities. For Lucy, it represents not only physical space but also the emotional and spiritual freedom she seeks to attain.

Throughout the novel, Forster skillfully juxtaposes the idyllic landscapes of Italy with the stifling propriety of Edwardian England, highlighting the contrast between spontaneity and restraint, passion and repression. Italy, with its vibrant culture and sense of vitality, serves as a catalyst for Lucy's transformation, while England represents the suffocating conformity of bourgeois society.

At its core, "A Room with a View" is a celebration of the human spirit and the power of love to transcend social barriers. Forster's timeless tale reminds us of the importance of staying true to ourselves and following our hearts, even in the face of societal pressure and expectations. With its charming characters, evocative settings, and poignant themes, "A Room with a View" remains a captivating and resonant work that continues to enchant readers more than a century after its publication.

E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View" is available in Amazon in paperback 18.99$ and hardcover 25.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 494

Language: English

Rating: 9/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

#E. M. Forster #A Room with a View #Edwardian England #Italy #Lucy Honeychurch #George Emerson #Love #Identity #Self-discovery #Social norms #Societal expectations #Romance #Freedom #Conformity #Individuality #Class differences #Gender roles #Cultural contrasts #Liberation #Repression #Relationships #Conflict #Coming-of-age #Society #Passion #Adventure #Travel #Emotional growth #Personal transformation #Symbolism