Hermione Roddice in "Women in Love"

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Hermione Roddice in "Women in Love" is an intellectual, aristocratic woman whose complex, neurotic temperament and conflicted relationships reflect D. H. Lawrence’s satirical portrait of the Bloomsbury set.

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Hermione Roddice in "Women in Love" canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Women in Love
associatedTheme class privilege
conflict between intellect and instinct
emotional dependency
spiritual emptiness
basedOn members of the Bloomsbury group (composite, satirical)
characterTrait complex
controlling
domineering
emotionally unstable
intellectual
jealous
neurotic
spiritually restless
conflictWith Rupert Birkin
Ursula Brangwen
contrastedWith Rupert Birkin’s quest for living wholeness
createdBy D. H. Lawrence
education highly educated
emotionalDynamicWith Rupert Birkin possessive
envies Ursula Brangwen
firstAppearance Women in Love
surface form: Women in Love (1920)
gender female
hosts weekend parties at Breadalby
ideologicalPosition intellectualist
rationalist
intellectualCircle Bloomsbury Group
surface form: Bloomsbury set (satirical representation)
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod modernism
narrativeFunction foil to Rupert Birkin
satire of Bloomsbury intellectualism
nationality English
portrayedAs hostess of intellectual gatherings
patron of the arts
relationshipTypeWith Rupert Birkin former lover
relationshipWith Rupert Birkin
settingAssociatedWith Breadalby (country house)
socialClass aristocracy
symbolizes decadent upper class
intellectual aristocracy
sterile intellectualism
workAuthorNationality English
workGenre novel

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Ottoline Morrell inspiredCharacter Hermione Roddice in "Women in Love"