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John Fowles is an English writer, life in England as well as Englishness are themes that reoccur in many of his works. His first novel; The Collector, is a mature work that is complex. This 7 page paper considers how life in England is portrayed in this work. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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images associated with England, the country gardens of Kent with cucumber sandwiches and butterflies flitting around the law and croquet being played. Other images may be those of a stiff
upper lip, the long held superiority of personality that is a remainder from the colonial days and the desire to be in control of ones emotions and events that take
place. These are all aspects that are associated with being English. In different forms of literature of film the perception of Englishness and life in England are translated to a
medium where it can be communicated to those in other countries. In the book, and the subsequent film "The Collector" by John Fowles there is an interesting portrayal of what
it means to live in England and what life is like in England. Fowles himself was English, growing up in Devon where he was evacuated during the Second
World War (Thorpe 291). However, his view of what it means to be English and life of this time is a set of conflicting ideas which is put forward in
this work. Fowles himself says of this as "the split in the English mind between the Green England and the Red-white-and-blue Britain" (Fowles 22). He makes a clear distinction between
English and British, however he also cites a level of hypocrisy at being English by citing the dilemma on how to be able to judge without subjecting oneself to the
same judgement, as he states; "How to judge . . . without actually inviting judgment in return. The problem is insoluble, of course; but its specific insolubility is perhaps
the most characteristic tension at the heart of all our best art" (Fowles 22). These are all aspects which are seen in The Collector. The main character
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