Female Masculinity in Forster's Novel A Room with a View

Abstract

The novel A Room with a View by E. M. Forster is about the female masculinity of the central female character Lucy Honey church. This novel moves around the protagonist Lucy Honey church who feels more comfortable behaving and looking masculine. She is attributed with masculine traits like reason, rebellion, power and potency, courage, combativeness, assertiveness and so on. She consists of a dream to live an independent and a dignified life full of happiness and bliss. She is assertive enough in nature who does not like to remain within the four walls of a house. She disobeys her family members' advice to get married and deliver children accomplishing her feminine gender roles expected by the society. Instead, she travels to the different countries for the sake of pleasure and recreation in the midst of repressed Edwardian society. Like males, she keeps multiple relationships one after another and indulges in lovemaking, chooses a socially degraded person George Emerson as her life partner and breaks off her engagement with the person of her family choice.Set in Italy and England, this novel is about both a romance and critique of English society at the beginning of the twentieth century as represented the protagonist by Lucy Honey church.