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1
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christine berberich

reaction a world quote

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‘Brideshead’ was Waugh’s reaction to a world changing before his eyes, and as he saw it, not changing for the better

2
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christine berberich

Waugh was disenchanted with..

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Waugh was disenchanted with what he perceived as decline

3
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R R Garnett in mourning Oxford

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In mourning Oxford, Ryder mourns his own youth as well

4
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R R Garnett describes the book as

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deeply elegiac

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Blayac he has not given up the struggle, but

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he has not given up the struggle, but he lacks the means to pursue it effectively. Not until the ed of the Prologue, when the landscape of the as yet unnamed Brideshead reminds him that there is another possible then and there

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H Carpenter Sebastian and Julia are

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Sebastian and Julia are the forerunners of Charles’ true love, the house