Evelyn Waugh’s “A Handful of Dust” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” both feature memorable female characters. Lady Brett Ashley, of “The Sun Also Rises” is a strong and independent woman who refuses to commit to any one man. Brenda...

Brideshead Revisited is a 1945 novel that was written by Evelyn Waugh. During book one and chapter one of book two of the novel, readers closely follow main characters Sebastian and Charles through their adolescent years and early adulthood. The...

Generally, in Brideshead Revisited, the characters are more concerned with the material than the spiritual. Most of them live in the upper class world where having high status and being wealthy and beautiful are the most prized characteristics of...

Brideshead Revisited acts as an ode to the dying English aristocracy which Charles Ryder appears to admire so much. Martin Amis asserts that the novel ‘squarely identifies egalitarianism as its foe and proceeds to rubbish it accordingly’, with...

The novel Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh, explores the meaning of love and the many incarnations it can take; love of family and friends, romantic love, and love of God. The novel follows Charles Ryder through his youth and into adulthood...

Today, the good is often overshadowed by the evil. The media is flooded with more crime and negativity than it is the positives and stories of charities and selfless deeds. Similarly, in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One, the bad, those obsessed with...

Vile Bodies is an amusing text which considers the trivial concerns of the youth of upper class London society in the early 20th century. The novel is often absurd and the plethora of characters who weave in and out of the narrative can leave the...

In Graham Greene’s A Gun for Sale and Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, the authors explore the consequences of the new technology of the telephone. Both books describe how telephones are a form of miscommunication, accidental and intended, due to the...

In Decline and Fall, Waugh uses satire to mock and portray 1920s British society as largely corrupt, undisciplined and twisted. Waugh satirises various aspects of society, including social classes, religion and racism, as well as education. The...