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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the central themes of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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examples of how the past can play a role in defining personal conflict and struggle with interpersonal relationships, and their "romantic" friendship that borders on the homoerotic, is linked to
factors that influence their perception of each other and their psychosocial functioning. Both Charles and Sebastian were raised during the 19th century in England, when individuals were commonly segregated
based on gender, and male friendships sometimes took on a romantic air (English Language Notes, 2001). Many male children were raised in sex-segregated schools, where homoerotic behavior often took
place (English Language Notes, 2001). At the same time, this type of behavior was often viewed as a normative function of adolescence in these environments, and it was believed
that homoerotic sexual behaviors would be dismissed in adulthood (English Language Notes, 2001). The condemnation of continued homoerotic behavior may in fact define some of the central directives for
behavior that Sebastian embraced. In the face of Englishness, in the face of the aristocracy and the religious affectations of a Catholic family, Sebastian finds a means of rejecting
values and normative functional elements in his effort towards self-definition (Toynton, 1998). Sebastians homosexual identity has been shaped by his early childhood, by his sense of difference and
by his effort to reject the constructs that hope to define him. "At Oxford, he carries a teddy bear named Aloysius, whom he scolds and is scolded by in
the most playful, charming, eccentric fashion. Sebastian is in flight (though its hard to believe that Waugh intended the pun) from, first, his family, and second--the two are inextricably linked
in his mind--his religion, whose mysteries are always overwhelmingly present, though he tries to turn his back on them by losing himself in worldly pleasures" (Toynton, 1998). Sebastians
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