... between the social proprieties of her upbringing and the spontaneous promptings of her heart. At the end she is convinced by George's father to follow the way of heart. Just married, Lucy and George come back to Italy. The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. In Forster's opinion Italians are more joyful and spontaneous, so Lucy's awakening becames from the ... : we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. For exampl...

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