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This 6 page paper discusses the theme of decline in post war British fiction. Examples given from Brideshead Revisited, Remains of the Day, Clockwork Orange, and Lucky Jim. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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destruction that the war had wrought on the countryside. Give this, then, it is no wonder that a great deal of the fiction that was created and published during this
time used as its universal themes and unifying metaphors the idea of decline. A good first example of this issue of decline is recognizable in
the work of Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited. The book begins and ends with scenes of war. While the novel proposes to focus on the lull between wars, it inevitably focuses
on the decline before the wars begin. Charles Ryder is the protagonist, the reader learns. He has come home to Brideshead after the war. Immediately the air of decline is
tangible. He states that he is only 39 years old, but that already he is feeling old. Brideshead, itself is a place of remembered decline for Charles as his last
love has died there. This tale is told in a series of flashbacks tied together by an explanation of what has brought Charles to the point where he feels old
and drained of life. This feeling of being drained of being an empty shell, is a direct parallel of post war Britain. Everywhere the
reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the country to the point that
this air of hopelessness, of being too tired to work toward a rebuilding, was pervasive. This is found in Brideshead Revisited continually and culminates in the last chapters of the
novel with the total collapse of all social norms. Compared to the atmosphere in which he has written this work, it is evident that Waugh
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