The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet"

Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr.

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... 100 war so easily breeds" (C, p. 21). Nonetheless in Clea are also provided theories about... the helpfulness of war. One character theorizes that "the desire for war was first lodged in the instincts . . .... in order to lodge death in the actual present. Purely helpfully, if you see what I mean!" (C, p. 183). War... the war did not mean a way of dying, it meant a way of ageing, of tasting the true staleness in human... things, and of learning to confront change bravely" (C, p. 106). Insomuch as war helps reveal insight

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... of the Second World War. I assume that the war is symbolically represented in part by the opposing camps... of the conspirators and the diplomats, and that in their essentially good intents is to be suggested the idea that war... describes war as a "nation-wide exercise in political diabolism" (M, p. 81), and refers to soldiers

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... to the dark principles of war, Mnemjian actually benefits from the war, which in shaving is "good business" (C

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... that is its function" (J, p. 118). During the war, Darley sees "that death (not even at hand, but in the air... Keats, a journalist, speculates that "the desire for war was first lodged in the instincts

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... his speech on death and war and his personal maturation with the comment, "Life only has its full... the "whirlwind" of war raged outside, Darley writes, "It would have been good to die at any moment then, for love

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... of World War II. From having read widely in the scholarship on the Quartet, I observe that, in discussing

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... of The Alexandria Quartet begins in the text during World War II on an island in the Mediterranean from which Darley

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..., Narouz's life is characterized as a war with the uncooperative desert. His life is one of isolation

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... and green shrubs—conquered it." Actually, once the desert is entered, and the war between light and dark

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... the journalist Keats returns matured from the field of war with insights into the process of nature concerning

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..., as Darley, a poor schoolteacher living in Alexandria prior to World War II, finds himself

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..., Darley returns to Alexandria near the conclusion of World War II. Darley leaves Melissa's child by Nessim

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... cave" (M, p. 126); Narouz uses this religious fervor to preach of "a holy war of religion" which "will

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... of Mountolive" (B, p. 88). In the working out of the war between the diplomats and the conspirators, Alexandrian

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... 3M been informed by Maskelyne, chief of the war office, of suspicions of Nessim's conspiracy

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