{"product_id":"the-dividing-line-between-private-and-public-values-in-modern-literature-e-m-forster-howards-end-george-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-von-jan-h-hauptmann","title":"The Dividing Line between Private and Public Values in Modern Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Queen's University Belfast (School of English), course: Literature and the Politics of Modernity, language: English, abstract: This essay focuses on two modern literary works by E.M. FORSTER and George\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eORWELL. While FORSTER¿s fourth published novel Howards End was already\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewritten in the early twentieth century (1910), ORWELL¿s famous dystopia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four was only published in 1949 and may therefore be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsidered as a late modern work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historical background of the two novels obviously differs to a great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eextent. On the edge of the First World War, E.M. FORSTER was particularly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcerned with a disrupted society under the direct influence of the significant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanges in modern social life. The increasing forces of imperialism and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecapitalism and tendencies of a growing urbanisation largely changed the lives of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople, directly affecting their private and public spheres. When ORWELL wrote\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis novel under the influence of the Second World War, modern life had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadditionally been shaken up by two world wars and the effects of totalitarian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esystems in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the historical gulf between Orwell and Forster, which makes a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edirect comparison of their works impossible, this paper will concentrate on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprivate and public values of the novels¿ characters and thus also pay attention\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto probable political notions of the authors. It will particularly figure out if the two\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriters either endorse or contest a dividing line between private and public\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evalues, additionally taking into consideration formal features as well as the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoverall plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForster¿s novel Howards End predominantly deals with the interrelations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof two middle class families called the Schlegels and the Wilcoxes. Despite\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelonging to the same class, their actual social background differs to a great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eextent. Margaret and Helen Schlegel are initially depicted as not being English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿to the backbone¿, which is not only true because of their German origins, but\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealso because of their idealist attitude they seem to have adopted from their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efather, who rather was ¿the countryman of Hegel and Kant, [¿] the idealist,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einclined to be dreamy, whose Imperialism was the Imperialism of the air¿.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdealism and anti-imperialism are obviously not to be considered as being very\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish any more, but rather seem to have died out all over modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640215218\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eE. M. Forster, \"Howards End\" - George Orwell, \"Nineteen-Eighty Four\"\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640215218","offer_id":39425379237981,"sku":"9783640215218","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/7eb7658d-bac5-4a09-a864-16c0c1dbf6bb.jpg?v=1777613401","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-dividing-line-between-private-and-public-values-in-modern-literature-e-m-forster-howards-end-george-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-von-jan-h-hauptmann","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}