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Contents.Plot summary The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied and as he begins to write his. Murdoch's novel exposes the motivations that drive her characters – the vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world.

Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and live in seclusion in a house by the sea. While there, he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in a self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters.

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'How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality. Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Who is one's first love?' Title Iris Murdoch's biographer gives as the ultimate source of the title. According to Xenophon's, 'The Sea! ( ) was the shout of exultation given by the roaming when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the from Mount Theches in and realised they were saved from death.Conradi states that the direct source of the title is 's poem Le Cimetiere Marin ( The Graveyard by the Sea). Free gujarati software. A line in the poem's final stanza quotes the Greeks' shouts: 'La mer, la mer, toujours recommencėe' (The Sea, the sea, forever restarting).

Murdoch refers to the poem in several of her books, and this stanza appears in full at the end of chapter 4 in her 1963 novel. Adaptations A four-part adaptation of The Sea, The Sea by Richard Crane, directed by Faynia Williams appeared as the Classic Serial on BBC Radio 3 in 1993. The actors included as Charles Arrowby, as Hartley Fitch, with, & Peter Kelly. Episode 3 included an interview with Iris Murdoch.A two-part adaptation of The Sea, the Sea by appeared on in August 2015. The actors included as Charles Arrowby, as Hartley Fitch, and as James Arrowby.

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