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August 11, 2005
Women In Love, Chapter 11 resources
Some support materials for Chapter 11:
Rupert imagines the island to be the perfect setting
for a "Watteau picnic". Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter who specialized in
party pictures, but with a dark undertone. This is why Rupert insists
the island would host Watteau picnics, and not a Paul et Virginie
picnic, as Ursula suggested. A romantic ideal of a book, Paul et
Virginie would suggest something much more idyllic, and not at all
in line with Ruper Birkin's view of life.
Plant life is also very prominent in this chapter (and the previous
one). Here are some pictures of the plants mentioned.
Rupert imagines the island to be the perfect setting
for a "Watteau picnic". Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter who specialized in
party pictures, but with a dark undertone. This is why Rupert insists
the island would host Watteau picnics, and not a Paul et Virginie
picnic, as Ursula suggested. A romantic ideal of a book, Paul et
Virginie would suggest something much more idyllic, and not at all
in line with Ruper Birkin's view of life.
Plant life is also very prominent in this chapter (and the previous
one). Here are some pictures of the plants mentioned.
On the bright hill-sides was a subdued smoulder of gorse. |
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A few forget-me-nots flowered by the water. |
She shrank from the little jungle of rank plants before her, |
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| evil-smelling figwort |  |
| and hemlock. |
