Brideshead Revisited - Episode 3 - PART 1
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@bn279626 You're absolutely right. It's very well explained by Robert Graves in "Good-bye to All That" - the sexes were so segregated for years of school that same-sex love relationships just happened naturally among young people. Many of these people went on to have conventional marriages; some of them continued to have homosexual extramarital affairs and relationships, and some did not.
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@bn279626 This not excluding Evelyn Waugh himself.
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sebastian is gay, charles isn't gay but probably got it on with sebastian at some point anyway. its never explicit but its pretty obvious that's what waugh was suggesting
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Fool.... Not unwittingly but quite calculated and diabolical like all the hounds she sets upon Sebastian. His reproach should have been against himself for his vanity and playing the fop.
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Enter the Dragon! And Charles, ignorant, status climbing, brown nosing fool makes one of the great mistakes of his life. Maybe greatest. What an empty, vapid creature. This is fiction but Alas, how I've known such as he, more than once.
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With the appearance of Lady Marchmain, I must bid adieu. Knowing the rest of the story, I cannot bear to watch the destruction of such sweetness. Thank you for uploading.
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haha this is such a snobbish book. americans have to have a long relationship with it in order to see it though.
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Thank God for Britain!
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"How does one mend one's ways?"
In this time period, it was completely normal for young men to have relationships with other men while at school before reverting their attentions to women once they were in adult society. Homosexual acts were illegal and nobody had a notion of a "homosexual lifestyle" as nobody could live one. It was very common for heterosexual men to have had homosexual experiences, so don't try to define Sebastian or Charles by their sexuality.
bn279626 1 year ago 20
People seem to forget that these young men had spent their entire lives up to this point exclusively in the company of other men... no wonder their relationships were different
theoldadage 1 year ago 10