A Room With a View

A Room with a View is a love story of romantic and marital variety. Ms. Lucy Honeychurch, at the center of the novel, is a normal girl faced with love that runs the opposite of the social conventions of the time period. Lucy felt she must overcome herself before she could follow her instinct. “Passion should believe itself irresistable (105)” is a phrase that best describes the theme of A Room with a View. Mr. George …showed first 75 words of 581 total…

…showed last 75 words of 581 total…really does love George. The reader now admires George even more so than before because of his inability to resist passion. Throughout the novel, Forster carefully places images of truth. These moments are to be noted in Lucy’s transformation described as, “robb[ing] the body of its taint, the world’s taunts of their sting; he had shown her the holiness of direct desire (199).” Lucy had fulfilled the theme; “Passion should believe itself irresistible (105).”