Howards End

Howards End ( in the original English: Howards End ) is the title of a novel, Edward Morgan Forster has released the 1910.

Action

In the center of the story are two families: the progressive romantic Schlegel and the sober and conservative Wilcox. While the three brothers Schlegel - Margaret, Helen and Tibby - a life in the artist - and lead Literatenbohème and were brought up by her German -born father to an independent and unprejudiced thinking, provide the (male ) members of the Wilcox family prototypes of Victorian Biedermann represents the without artistic or philosophical inclinations of his life dedicated to the commercial professions.

These two worlds meet in the novel to each other in several ways: First, in a hasty and hurried back broken engagement of Helen Schlegel with the young Wilcox - son, then in a delicate friendship between Margaret Schlegel and wife Ruth Wilcox and finally, after the death of Ruth in the marriage of Margaret with the widowed Henry Wilcox.

Besides the two families have a chance acquaintance of Schlegel plays a major role: Leonard Bast, an aspiring smart young man from a humble background, is sponsored by the Schlegel without success. His poverty contrasts conspicuously with the material carelessness of upper class families.

The novel's title is derived from the country house of Wilcox, the Wilcox family unrepresentative and useful appears for Ruth Wilcox but carries great emotional significance. Margaret Schlegel can understand this as the only passion for the historic house, and so Howards End is to touch and turning point in history.

Criticism

In a review of the book, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1995, the novel leads the reader to a bygone world " in the precarious situation of their offense " before and let him in " the old Victorian England, infinitely lovable, albeit a bit bigoted, into disappear".

Interpretation approach

In the final tableau, the main characters are united in Howards End. Mr. Wicolx, his wife Margaret, her sister Helen and her illegitimate child form a community that certainly is not a family in the bourgeois sense. But their togetherness at the end facing the interpretation of Annelise Phlippen, "that [sic ] they have overcome their social origins and the consequent contradictions. " For Phlippen appears in them the " ideal of the classless society [ ... ] on a same time, touching as serene way realized. "

Filming

Howards End was successfully filmed in 1992 by James Ivory, Howards End see (film).