The deep meaning of the music scene in A Room with a View from the perspective of semiotics

Zhongna Li

doi:10.63313/LHP.8007

Authors

Zhongna Li Department of Foreign Languages, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63313/LHP.8007

Keywords:

Edward Morgan Foster, A Room With a View, Semiotics, Music, Symbolism

Abstract

Edward Morgan Forster's A Room with a View takes Lucy Honeychurch's love story with George Emerson as the clue, which deeply reveals the class difference and the imprisonment of traditional ideas in the British society in the early 20th century. This paper uses semiotic theory to deeply analyze the music scene in the novel, and discusses how it cleverly reflects the multi-level and deep meaning of social class, individual freedom and cultural conflict.