‘Only connect!. . . Only connect the prose and the passion . . . ‘, says Margaret Schlegel in Howards End, and in some sense that is exactly what Eliot, Forster and Lawrence tried to do in fiction, and a reason why they chose to use the theme of the sisters in their novels. The sisters’ relationship with each other and the world they create by seeing things differently, by arguing, by loving, and
... [Show full abstract] also by experiencing disillusion, is a natural model for fiction - a kind of tapestry woven between ‘prose’ and ‘passion’, between reality and fantasy, between social ethics and individual freedom.