6/29/2023 0 Comments Possession a romance by as byatt![]() ![]() ‘Cracking’ the image of the egg takes form in two distinct ways in the novel. ![]() This image is a metaphor for a state of liminality between the stage of being birthed or alive and the precursory phase, being not yet born but isolated and protected. A recurrent image that Byatt uses in the text is that of an egg, an object connected to ideas of new life and birth. The basis of the novel is the journey of two twentieth-century academics, Maud Bailey and Roland Michell, in their endeavor to piece together the lives of two nineteenth-century poets, Christabel LaMotte and Randolph Henry Ash. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance is a tapestry woven with threads of imagery and complex language which provide the audience with a dense and highly metaphorical read. ![]()
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