Sebastian gets in deep trouble drinking far too much. As his intimacy with the family grows, he looses Sebastian more and more. Mottram stays clear of the matter, Sebastian is charged with drunken driving and the story is featured in the newspapers.Īfter Christmas, Charles joins the family in Brideshead. At one of Mottram’s dinner parties, Charles and Sebastian are persuaded by a fellow student, Boy Mulcaster, to go to a bar and on the way accompanied by three prostitutes, they’re caught by the police and brought to jail. Julia introduces her new friend Rex Mottram. Lady Marchmain tries to get more influence on her son, accepts Charles as Sebastian’s friend and appoints Mr Samgrass as a tutor for Sebastian.

The new term in Oxford is characterised by Sebastian’s melancholic mood and drinking. After fourteen days at Venice, they leave again for Oxford. In Venice, Charles meets Sebastian’s father, as well as his mistress Cara, who has a private talk with Charles in which she explains why Lord Marchmain hates his wife so much and expresses her belief that Sebastian drinks too much. Sebastian suggests that they visit his father in Venice and generously offers to pay for Charles’ ticket. Later he also meets Brideshead and Cordelia, Sebastian’s brother and sister. Charles meets Julia and is impressed by her beauty.

Sebastian’s “grave injury” is “so small that it hasn’t a name”. It turns out useless and when Charles gets a telegram saying that Sebastian is gravely injured, he’s back to Brideshead. Charles also learns about Sebastian’s brother Brideshead.ĭuring the Summer Holidays, Charles spends time with his father, trying to get more money. Talking to Anthony Blanche Charles finds out more about Sebastian’s family: His parents are separated Lord Marchmain living in Italy with a mistress, his wife residing in Brideshead not divorced because of her being Catholic. The only member of the family Charles gets to see is Julia, Sebastian’s sister, when she passes by in a Rolls-Royce. Sebastian won’t let Charles meet the rest of the family, because he’s afraid to loose him as a friend. In Eights Week of his third term in Oxford, Sebastian takes Charles with him to his mother’s house, Brideshead, where Charles meets his nanny. Sebastian invites him to a “luncheon party” which marks “the beginning of a new epoch in Charles’ life”. Ryder remembers the years he passed in this house and thus begins his memoir.Īs a newcomer to Oxford in 1923, Charles makes friends with Sebastian Flyte. Near the end of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder, a commander in the British Army and his company leave by train to a new destination, which turns out to be a place Ryder’s very familiar with: Brideshead. Boekverslag : Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisitedĭe taal ervan is Nederlands en het aantal woorden bedraagt 1356 woorden.

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