Penge
Penge, the estate that belongs to Clive’s family, symbolizes the homophobia embedded in the social structures and prevailing attitudes of England during the time of the novel. The homophobia at the heart of Penge is…
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The Symposium
In Maurice, Plato’s Symposium serves as a symbol of a time and place—Ancient Greece—where being gay was more widely accepted. What’s more, the famous philosophical work also functions as a symbol of the kind…
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