Angels And Insects
(A.S. Byatt)
Angels and Insects is one of those books that takes a concept and turns it completely around. A.S. Byatt writes in the Victorian era where propriety is everything, but the decorum hides relationships that are best forgotten. At the beginning, William Adamson, the main character, has just returned from Africa where he has studied the native tribes and considered on their barbaric nature. He is left penniless after a shipwreck and is welcomed into the Alabaster family, a wealthy, civilized family. He falls in love with the daughter Eugenia and eventually marries her. Throughout his day to day life, he realizes that something is not right with the relationship between Eugenia and her brother. Although at the first glance, it would appear that the Alabasters would represent the angels protecting Adamson from his poor state from the shipwreck, they are presented with an irony and a satirical viewpoint while the true heroes are those free from civilized obsession.It is almost Darwinian in its approach, bringing up feminist issues as well as pointing out the plank in the "civilized" Victorian's eye. The question remains, What does it mean to be civilized? And are angels really those who are civilized and 'modern'?
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