This inspires me to dig out my old copy and reread it. Brilliant, Sandhya, just brilliant! I'm glad to see you don't fall in some usual traps, like searching too much the real foundations of the characters or proclaiming Of Human Bondage for 'Maugham's best' as if he never wrote anything else. I love your analysis of Philip's masochism and self-humiliation. I always forget the name of that harsh French teacher but his words are difficult to forget indeed. The scene with Philip showing him his paintings is one of my most favourite in the book.
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (1978, Trade Paperback)
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Earlier today I was thinking about how some in England at that time didn't like the middle-class,"and their pathetic little morals" as Sackville-West puts it in The Edwardians. Philip Carey is thoroughly middle-class, but Maugham makes it okay to be middle-class. Perhaps the reason this reviewer is wondering if Carey is interesting enough is due to this. It must be nerve-racking for an author to put so much into a novel and to get such a mixed review as this; I don't think many people bought the book due to this luke-warm both negative and good review.
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Somerset Maugham. Of Human Bondage is the story of a young man's struggle to find the meaning of life in a world that is cruel. Philip Carey has a club foot, making him the subject of cruelty at school and ridicule in the adult world. Philip allows this treatment to warp his personality, making him introspective and solitary.
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