Interaction between History and Fiction: Reading Evelyn Waugh's Brdishead Revisited

Abstract

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshad Revisited depicts the 1940s aristocratic age. Charles Ryder, the narrator, hero of the novel is the witness of all the ups and downs in the life of Flyte, aristocrat of Brideshead. Lord Marchmain, the head of aristocrat of Flyte is a carefree person eventually depicts to adopt Roman catholic. As such the novel the preservation and fictional reconstitution of an aristocratic catholic heritage in England. By showing on interaction of history author is trying to reconstruct history fictionally. The research traces one's history by the traces and sites of memory that provide one with a sense of historical identity.