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part of their property. This is the essence of the Forsytes as a social class 
of the English society, without it they are inconceivable, their existence 
is impossible. 
The same typical essential features of the Forsytes arc emphasized 
in young Jolyon's cue, which is situated in a distant context. 
"I should like, said young Jolyon", to lecture on it: "Properties and 
quality of a Forsyte. This little animal disturbed by the ridicule of his 
own sort, is unaffected in his motions by the laughter of strange 
creatures (you or I). Hereditarily disposed of myopia, he recognizes only 
the persons and habitats of his own species, amongst which he passes an 
existence of competitive tranquility p.261). 
Uttered by a Forsyte, but a Forsyte, refusing to accept the priority 
of material welfare over the spiritual welfare and that's why ostracized 
by the family clan, these words sound especially convincing and once 
more reveal the same typical feature of the Forsytes bounding 
themselves by the world of their own interests. 
The same trait, correlating with their desire to protect themselves 
from the undesirable influence of the outer world, that could negatively 
affect the welfare of the Forsytes (both each of them and the whole clan 
taken together) receives its further development in the next metaphor, 
also situated, in a distant context: 
"In the great warren each rabbit for himself, especially those 
clothed, in the more expensive fur, who are afraid of carriages on foggy 
days, are driven underground" (p- 332). 
The central image of this metaphor "each rabbit for himself" 
getting its development in the next link "those clothed in the more 
expensive fur", allows to reveal such a typical trait of the Forsytism as 
their insulation and concern for the things that immediately surround 
them, including all kinds of material values among which they reckoned 
their wives too: "Her power of attraction he regarded as part of her 
value, as his property" (p. 97). 
The same trait of the Forsytes is underlined in the metaphor, that is 
found in the sequel to this novel: 
"Little spiders and great spiders and the greatest spinner of all his 
own tenacity for ever wrapping its cocoon of threads round..." 
Observations over the onward movement of the text (continuum) 
enables us to trace the further development of the metaphoric image, 
revealing the ontological characteristic of the Forsytism: "Each section 

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in the vineyard of its own choosing grew- and culled and pressed and 
bottled the grapes of pet sea-air (p.301). 
The analysis of the above mentioned metaphors, allows to state that the 
trait of "insulation, boundless by a narrow circle of personal interests" 
serves as a pivotal centre uniting and concentra ting the cited cases of 
actualized sustained metaphors around the-main theme of the cycle — 
the characteristic of the Forsytes as the most typical and vivid 
representatives of the English bourgeois society. Moreover the semantic 
analysis of the constituents of the-given metaphors (shell, habitat, 
warren, section in the vineyard) testifies to the fact that simultaneously 
with the characteristic function, all of them perform the function of 
linkage, connecting separate and sometimes rather distant from each 
other spans of the text. 
Thus, being stylistically marked elements of the text (focus), 
revealing one of the main themes of the entire literary work (topic) and 
simultaneously performing a connecting role in the text (linkage) the 
sustained metaphor realizes the category of the text wholeness. The 
concept of wholeness of a literary text is closely connected with such 
concepts as integration and completeness of the text. 
Integration (from Latin integratio — making up as a whole, 
making entire, integer — undivided, whole) according to the definition 
given in the Big Soviet Encyclopedia is a concept belonging to the 
theory of systems and denoting a combination of separate component