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Brideshead Prologue
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- 1"All this had been planned and planted a century and a half ago so that, at about this date, it might have been seen in its maturity"Lament for loss
- 2"couched among the lime trees like a hind in the braken"Personifcation and unity with nature and house
- 3Hooper - "Very ornate, I'd call it. And a queer thing, there's a sort of R.C Church attached...I felt very awkward. More in your line than mine"No interest in in religion or beauty as Charles sees it. Foreshadows Charles' conversion to Catholicism
- 4Hooper - "Theres a frightful great fountain, too, in front of the steps, all rocks and sort of carved animals. You never saw such a thing."Hooper is not drawn in my the magic of Brideshead
- 5"I had been there before; I knew all about it."Nostalgia and return in the narrative voice
- 6"Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old"Lament for loss. Golden Age of youth has passed
- 7"Here my last love died"Charles is bitter. Foreshadowing of decline in the novel
- 8"It was as though someone had switched off the wireless...an immense silence followed"Charles whole world was based at Brideshead
- 9"full of a multitude of sweet and natural and long forgotten sounds"Past Golden Age
- 10"A conjuror's name of such ancient power, that, at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight"Brideshead is the ghost of Arcadia. Memories and nostalgia
- 11"The rain had ceased but the clowds hung low and heavy overhead"Pathetic Fallacy
- 12"the rattle and chatter and whistling and catcalls, the zoo-noises of the battalion"Animalistic and uncivilised noises of modern world. Foreign invasion on the landscape
- 13"an exquisite manmade landscape"Harmony between man and nature and aethetics
- 14"A sequestered place, enclosed and embraced in a single, winding valley."Sanctuary, embraced by nature
- 15"still unravished"Suggests that it will be ravished
- 16"It was named the Bride"Connotations of virginity and purity
- 17"the oak grey and bare, the beech faintly dusted with green by the breaking buds"A shadow of former beauty
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