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The Go-between, while a powerful story of a young boy’s premature involvement in an adult love affair is ultimately concerned in criticising the rigid social class system of Edwardian England. Discuss. (2500 words)
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The Go-between, while a powerful story of a young boy's premature involvement in an adult love affair is ultimately concerned in criticising the rigid social class system of Edwardian England. Discuss. (2500 words) The concepts of social class and loss of innocence are two main issues highlighted by the author in the novel. He influences the reader to form criticisms through the construction of his characters, and the events that take place. The sequences of events that lead up to the discovery of Ted and Marian's covert relationship are represented by various uses of symbolism. As L.P. Hartley reminds us "The Go-between is pregnant with symbols. The deadly nightshade is the most obvious one".1 The Belladonna, throughout the novel, represents sexual symbolism. Leo's encounter with the belladonna is another stage towards his loss of innocence. The plant in its own right is symbolic of the sexual relationship between Ted and...
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