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Jasper is Charles’s older cousin who also attends Oxford University. He advises Charles about how to behave properly at school, though Charles doesn’t take his cousin’s tips seriously. Jasper’s stuffy, overbearing attitude is a stark contrast to the wild antics of Charles, Sebastian, and their friends at Oxford. In this sense, he represents British tradition and conservatism, while unconventional characters like Anthony represent modernity’s influence on youth culture.
Jasper Quotes in Brideshead Revisited
The Brideshead Revisited quotes below are all either spoken by Jasper or refer to Jasper. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 2 Quotes
I could tell him, too, that to know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. But I felt no need for these sophistries as I sat before my cousin, saw him, freed from his inconclusive Struggle with Pindar, in his dark gray suit, his white tie, his scholar’s gown; heard his grave tones and, all the time, savored the gillyflowers in full bloom under my windows. I had my secret and sure defense, like a talisman worn in the bosom, felt for in the moment of danger, found and firmly grasped.
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Jasper Character Timeline in Brideshead Revisited
The timeline below shows where the character Jasper appears in Brideshead Revisited. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Chapter 1
...accident one evening because Charles has a ground floor room on the quad. Charles’s cousin Jasper (who is also studying at Oxford) warned against this room and told Charles to change...
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...him anything about Oxford except that he should “always wear a tall hat on Sundays.” Jasper, however, has a long list of rules for Charles on how to behave at Oxford....
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Among his advice to Charles, Jasper tells him to keep away from “Anglo-Catholics” and to get a new room because, with...
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Part 1, Chapter 2
Not long after Charles and Sebastian’s outing to Brideshead, Jasper comes to visit Charles and rebukes him for keeping the wrong sort of company. Jasper...
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Jasper complains that Charles spends a fortune and that he is always drunk in the middle...
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...study, and passes his exams at the end of term, he does not care about Jasper’s warning because he is in love with Sebastian. He feels that this love is the...
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Part 1, Chapter 5
...fails, and their bleak mood continues into the new term. Charles realizes that he misses Jasper, who has now graduated, because Charles’s antics were more fun when there was somebody to...
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