Cecil Vyse (A Room with a View novel character)

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Cecil Vyse is a snobbish, intellectual, and emotionally repressed upper-class Englishman who serves as a foil to the more spontaneous characters in E.M. Forster’s novel "A Room with a View."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
male character
adaptedIn A Room with a View (1985 film)
A Room with a View (stage adaptations)
alignment antagonistic to protagonists’ desires
appearsIn A Room with a View
breaksEngagementWith Lucy Honeychurch
characterTrait aesthetic poseur
emotionally repressed
intellectual
priggish
snobbish
contrastsWith emotional honesty
spontaneity
creator E. M. Forster
embodiesTheme conflict between convention and passion
repression
social snobbery
engagedTo Lucy Honeychurch
fictionalUniverse A Room with a View
firstAppearance A Room with a View (1908 novel)
linked to: A Room with a View
foilTo George Emerson
Lucy Honeychurch
genreOfWork novel of manners
literaryAnalysisNote often cited as an example of Forster’s critique of the English upper class
literaryPeriod Edwardian literature
narrativeFunction obstacle to Lucy’s self-discovery
nationality English
occupation intellectual
portrayedBy Daniel Day-Lewis
relationshipWith Lucy Honeychurch
residence London
linked to: London, England
roleInWork foil
settingOfActivity Florence
Surrey
socialClass upper-class Englishman
speechStyle affected
values aestheticism
social propriety

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Cecil Vyse basedOn Cecil Vyse (A Room with a View novel character)
Cecil Vyse adaptationOf Cecil Vyse (A Room with a View novel character)