Lucy’s rebellious spirit is soon revealed when she plays the piano in the pension, inspiring the remark by Mr. Nonetheless, she is determined to enjoy herself and readily takes up the Emerson’s offer of exchanging rooms, for theirs does have a view, despite Miss Bartlett’s opposition as the gesture, and the Emersons, are lacking in decorum. Maggie Smith as Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy’s chaperone, and Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Churchill in the 1985 film, “A Room With A View” Disappointment and displeasure continue as Lucy soon realizes that far from the exciting trip to a foreign country she had imagined, the pension is full of English people, some of which she knows from home. A quabble quickly ensues over the fact that they were not given a room with a view as promised. The opening scene of the book is the arrival of Lucy and her chaperone, Miss Bartlett, in Florence at the pension Bertolini. In the following series of posts I will explore these three characters and pair a Tuscan wine to each based on their personality and inner struggles throughout the book. What better way to explore the heart of a young girl in Edwardian England caught in a love triangle with the Gothic “Cecil Vyse” and the michelangelesque “George Emerson”? If “medieval” is understood as the dark ages, the interruption of cultural achievements inherited from the Greeks and Romans, where people where expected to blindly accept the teachings of the catholic church and be obedient members of society, then the “renaissance” is rebirth and lightness, inquiry into the truth and the nature of ourselves, the spread of individualism and humanism, the celebration of beauty, and a return to nature. rooms, and, in short, renaissance idealism vs. In fact, the contrast between comedy and tragedy is just one of the story’s dichotomous themes: lightness vs. The hilarious scenes woven throughout the story are coupled with moments of extreme conflict between ideals, values, social classes, and social conventions, with the dear “Lucy Honeychurch” caught in the crossfire, torn between two worlds and struggling to find herself in either of them.
However, to only see the book as a comedy is to only appreciate half of it.
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