Points of intersection: A handful of dust and St. Mawr

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

7 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/20/2008

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

The protagonist in A Handful of Dust.
The characters of Brenda and Mrs. Witt in St. Mawr.
Lawrence's protagonist of Lou and Waugh's protagonist of Tony Last.
Lou Witt's realization on escaping the false illusions that surround life.
Lawrence's description of rebirth and revitalization.

Abstract

In Evelyn Waugh's novel A handful of dust as in D.H. Lawrence's novel St mawr, a common rhetorical layer discusses the search for life's meaning, which in many aspects mirrors Ellington's experience of finding agreeability in music, as well as the sensation of childishness. In A handful of dust Waugh's protagonist, Tony Last, searches throughout the story for something grander than the reality and drudgery of English life. This search manifests itself more subtly in his attachment to Hetton and quite clearly in his quest to find the City. Similarly, in Lawrence's St. mawr Lou Witt is a protagonist who searches for something greater than her reality in "a little old house in Westminster" (Lawrence, 6), and St. mawr is the catalyst for Lou's search which leads her to the American Southwest. Both Lawrence and Waugh were English-born writers and both works were published within ten years of each other.