The forsyte saga
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THE FORSYTE SAGA by John Galsworthy THE AUTHOR John Galsworthy (1867-1933), British playwright and novelist, was born to wealthy parents in Surrey, England. He studied law at Oxford, but soon left the practice to travel with his family’s shipping business. While in Australia he met Joseph Conrad, who at the time was still a sailor, and the two became close friends. His first published work was a book of short stories entitled From the Four Winds (1897), but his reputation was established through his plays, the first of which was The Silver Box (1906), followed later by Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920). In 1906 he also published the first of the novels on which his fame today is largely based, The Man of Property, the first of three novels and two interludes that make up The Forsyte Saga. This was eventually followed by Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918), In Chancery (1920), Awakening (1920), and To Let (1921). He continued the tale of the Forsyte clan in two more trilogies, A Modern Comedy (1924-28) and End of the Chapter (1931-33). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932, weeks before his death from a brain tumor, largely on the strength of The Forsyte Saga. Galsworthy was a liberal in his politics and social views. In 1895, he began a ten-year affair with Ada Cooper, the wife of his cousin, and married her in 1905 after her divorce. They lived happily together until his death in 1933. In politics, Galsworthy championed social reform, including the rights of women, prisoners, and animals. Like contemporary George Bernard Shaw, he despised the values of the Victorian Age and was sharply critical of the materialism of the British upper middle class. The Forsyte Saga is, according to the author, a work intended to “embalm the upper-middle class” of Victorian and Edwardian England - the class into which he was born. He particularly targets their acquisitiveness, materialism, and certainty of the superiority of their own social class. The trilogy in reality has no villains or heroes. While some might be inclined to view Soames as a villain, Galsworthy generates enough sympathy for him in his readers to humanize the man, especially in his undying love for Irene and complete devotion to Fleur. Nor is Irene, clearly based on Ada Cooper, a heroine; after all, she does carry on two affairs while still married to Soames. Furthermore, she is by far the most passive character in the story, seen only through the eyes of others and more a symbol of Beauty than a real person. An important thing to remember about The Forsyte Saga is that Galsworthy was to a large extent writing about his contemporaries - the story takes place between 1886 and 1920, while the books were written between 1906 and 1921. Download 222.6 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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