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A 7 page paper that examines the concepts of culture versus materialism and practicality versus intellectualism as presented by the Schlegel and Wilcox families in E.M. Forster's 1910 novel Howard's End. Also included are discussions of the symbolism incorporated into each family characterization as well as into the physical estate of Howards End. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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of industrialization was spreading quickly throughout the developed countries. With the turn of the century had come a turn of events that was to challenge the traditional ideals and
aspirations of the society of an old world and introduce the culture and materialism of the society of a new and very changed world. This was a period of transition,
a transition that was openly embraced by some yet bitterly rejected by others. It was a period that began to break down the time-honored separating social classes that had
for so long distinctly marked the perceived differences between these classes and formed the framework of an old and inherited sense of society. Nowhere was this sense of society
more formally perceived and strictly observed than in the pre-twentieth century period of Englands history known as the Edwardian era, an era that was filled with societal tension and hypocrisy
(Forsyth, 1996). And nowhere was the upheaval and transition of this traditional sense of society more clearly defined and analyzed than in E.M. Forsters 1910 novel entitled Howards End.
Howards End has been described by some critics as a "symbolic union of two major forces in English life, the practical and the intellectual" (Monarch Notes, 1963; PG). These
two major forces, the forces of practical and intellectual, may also be interpreted as the forces of reality and aspiration or of culture and materialism, and each is represented in
Forsters novel by a distinctly different yet inherently similar family structure. In Howards End, Forster presents the intellectual, or the cultural, as the Schlegels, who represent the aspirations of
a new society that strives to transcend old, social barriers and create a new connectivity within the society of mankind. The Wilcoxes, on the other hand, are symbolic of
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