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"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." How does the contextual setting make the outcome of the novel (The Go-Between - L P Hartley) more tragic to a modern reader?"
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" "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." How does the contextual setting make the outcome of the novel more tragic to a modern reader?" Settings create shortcuts - a novel or a film set, for example, in Paris in 1944 comes with expectations that enrich the writing and give it instant depth. Similarly, L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, being set in both in 1900 and 1952, immediately alerts its readers to the significance of those years. The main part of the novel paints a detailed picture of rural England at the beginning of the twentieth century, when Hartley himself was only five years old. It is, however, viewed in retrospect from 1952. The choice of a new century and particularly the twentieth century provides an ideal setting for Leo's story of youthful idealism and ultimately his disillusionment. The tragedy of the novel arises...
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