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In Hartley’s The Go-Between, Leo suffers a nervous breakdown following his three-week stay at Brandham Hall in 1900. He feels completely responsible for what happens to the central characters. There are aspects of Leo’s
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To what extent is personal weakness to blame for what happens to the main characters? The Go-Between L.P Hartley In Hartley's The Go-Between, Leo suffers a nervous breakdown following his three-week stay at Brandham Hall in 1900. He feels completely responsible for what happens to the central characters. There are aspects of Leo's character that certainly contribute to the outcome, his personal weakness and also the pressures of 1900 society are to blame. Hartley explores the difficult path of forbidden love of Marian and Ted, upper class and working class, against the strict social class background of 1900, England. In the 'garden of Eden' setting of Brandham Hall, Hartley tells the story through the eyes of an innocent 12-year-old boy, who discovers the importance of class structures in the hot summer of 1900. In the resulting loss of innocence, Leo discovers the true nature of the relationship between Ted and Marian, and the lives...
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