![]() ![]() He appreciates beauty, and in particular architecture, which we know becomes his specialty. ![]() Part of the reason for Charles’s utter fascination with the estate is his profession: he’s an artist. And though the characters around Charles come and go and his relationships with them shift, evolve, and even disintegrate, it is always Brideshead that remains – the frame story is the clearest proof of this. (Notice that, at the start of his recollection, Charles first recounts his initial visit to Brideshead Castle and only then steps back in time to reveal his first meeting with Sebastian.) His dream of marrying Julia is similarly overwhelmed by the possibility of his inheriting the estate. ![]() Charles’s relationship with Sebastian is almost eclipsed by his relationship to the Brideshead estate itself. ![]() (Note: This section is about the title of the novel, "Brideshead Revisited." For a discussion of the two internal titles, "Book One, Et in Arcadia Ego" and "Book Two, A Twitch Upon the Thread," see Shmoop’s "Symbols, Imagery, Allegory.") Brideshead refers to the country estate where the Flytes live. ![]()
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