Content. I. Introduction II. Chapter I english literature in XIX and XX centuries III. Chapter II

Soames and Irene:
The novel primarily focuses on Soames and Irene Forsyte, the events around them, which directly influence the others‟ lives, generally two generations of the Forsytes. But the story begins with the engagement of June Forsyte. All the members of the Forsyte clan gathered at Old Jolyon’s house, everything is chic, everybody dressed his/her best, and the author describes everything accurately, from the side the Forsytes seem happy. June’s engagement was a bit surprising, because her fiancé was not from their surrounding; he was an ordinary, architect. Soames and his wife Irene‟s relationship and their troubles emerged during this period, mainly the events happening lead the emerging of the core of the problems. Old Jolyon did not want his beloved granddaughter June to marry a man of no penny, but it was not his way to reject directly, so he gave a chance them. First he let them engage, and then put a task before Philip. He wanted Bosinney to prove himself and earn four hundred a year. As we know Soames was deeply devoted to his wife Irene, though Irene had a strong dislike towards him. In the hope of cooling his wife’s sadness and unhappiness Soames decided to build a house outside London, at Robin Hills. So, this gave an opportunity to June and Philip Bosinney to show themselves to grandfather. June persuaded Soames let Bosinney to build an estate for Irene.
Because after it unhappiness of Irene gave her alibi to betray her husband and have affair with Bosinney. Though the story does not go into details of what Bosinney and Irene’s relations consisted, we can find out how they did spent time together and that they did have a deep affection for each other. Upon Philip’s death Irene left Soames to make her own life, which she could think to be happy and at least free of her unhappy marriage. It was 10 or 12 years however before they finally divorced.Transformation in Irene emerged with position of life and with dominating character of forsytism. As the evolution in her position grew gradually those who admired her even doesn’t notice it. That’s natural, because her story presents an independent aesthetic interest by itself. But significance of her behaviours and worries are greater than could be imagined, seeing her tragedy and the solution of conflict.
Irene jealousy, her behaviour and reaction in those days, when the fate of her son was in the case of solution was contrary towards the feelings, which caught Fleur and John. So this contrast in its turn gave a sharp dramatic view to the scene. Why psychological conflict is described with the main characters – Soames and Irene and “The Forsyte Saga” begins with the engagement of Bosinney, which then became the beginning of the ending of an unhappy marriage of Irene.
The secret of the novelist is disclosed very easily: If not this sudden love, Irene could not dare to divorce with Soames, could not understand how her marriage was like slavery. It is seen that the author thought better to begin from a rotary point when Irene guessed the impossibility of living with the old ways. Neither Galsworthy, no Irene proclaims it openly. Everything is understood from the spiritual changing of Irene and the cruelty of Soames. He was obliged to agree with the coming of Bosinney to his home and the meetings of Irene with an architect at different places. Meetings and love were not secret; the lovers did not conceal their feelings. The author choosing a special manner of describing of happenings prefers to lead the reader to the world of Irene’s feelings indirectly using his right to penetrate to their inner world for recognition of his character. About the closeness of Irene was found and showed from the side of an architect and in the second it became remembrance, shape, living in the imagination of a loving person. But thinking about the conflict flow, you can forget about these relations, the existence of monotonous Forsytes standards, for a while, and concentrate on that saturated inner life of Irene, enthusiasm to love, fear, power of will and weakness, opposed to “The Man of Property” and then in “In Chancery”. The author tried to draw attention on that how Irene, waiting for Bosinney-beautiful out of will figure- differed from that one who get informed about the death of a lover, her smart face immediately flushing with crazy hopes and again fixed on sorrow. How expressive appearance, so many shades of inner world there were. Nothing could keep her from closeness with Bosinney – neither the fact that she was a wife of another person, nor the gossips of Forsytes.
From the other side, the world surrounding her was very cruel. It was impossible not to notice that in the eyes of Soames relatives Irene was still the wife of him, not deserving, disobedient but still the wife of Forsytes. Twelve years passed and again she heard from Soames that, he wanted her to return. She didn’t have any information about the talks between her mother and Soames. But again she rejected him with the same irreconcilable way as previous time. The Forsyte should accept and understand his defeat. But Soames as usual thought that, he was a good husband, wanted only the best things for Irene. And if the was such a problem with Irene, the reason was the love between Bosinney and Irene and now Bosinney died, and there could not be obstinacy to reject him. So, hearing the negative answer from Irene he again began to suspect of her new relation. So, it was not clear enough for him that the problem was not any kind of relation, the real root of the mother was the deep hollow between them, which will never let them be together. So, before remarrying Young Jolyon, Irene decided to cut all the ties with Soames. But the thought of Soames is directed to another side. According to his mind the fact that Irene didn’t love him couldn’t be the reason of their divorce, because he loved her and very much, so it could be enough for both. Additionally, he was such a good husband that, he could forgive her blame and betrayal as is seen the impingement of Beauty became quite sensitive for Forsytes. Forgetting about the previous incident in the family in which love won the possessive world, they again continued to observe and value Irene as a stupid person. Once Young Jolyon didn’t agree with his father and all other Forsytes married a woman of having less property. He was rejected by his family. Old Jolyon took June, his son’s daughter of from the first marriage and no one wanted to know anything about Jolyon, who worked as a clerk, lived a modest life without property and also was busy with art which was not a business for Forsytes. Old Jolyon who broke up all the ties with his son, many years after began to destroy the fences separating him from his son and had done it resolutely. In the Forsyte family the rules were as in the finance world: behavior of the family members were counted according to their personal interests. All the rest were thrown away as a useless thing. It was such about the Irene’s feelings, which were so unimportant for Forsytes. It was such with the fate of Young Jolyon who also wanted to have a family with love. But Irene’s behaviours caused more rough reproach than the second marriage of young Jolyon. He was the object of gossips, all the Forsytes spoke about him only bad words and he became unimportant figure in the clan, but no one openly strived against him, just he was rejected by all relatives. But Irene was another case. Neither Soames, nor other members of the clan could compromise her and not to judge about her behaviour because she didn’t obey their rules. Not they turned her out, but she couldn’t bare that kind of life and left them, in general the world of Forsytes. For this reason she was judged by all of the clan. Soames’s aunts who valued him very much tried to blame her in everything. Because they had for it a lot of evidences, as Soames was a man of family. He lived only for a family, didn’t have a lot of friends and also he had good hand in business. He tried to protect the interests of Forsytes in the business sphere when they had any problem.
Years have taken her outer and inner beauty. Her golden hair has lost its freshness, but the main problem is that, her ability to value the personal freedom, to protect the rights of truth rather than the man of property has been lost. The central line of the plot is the Family Tragedy of Soames Forsyte, the son of James, and cousin of old Jolyon. Soames always tries to hide his family problems from the people around him, but destruction of his family is inescapable. The Forsyte accept his wife as an extraordinary person in their circle. As Galsworthy describes, “with golden hair and dark eyes she looks like a Goddess”, she is very attractive and charming and differs with her delicate taste. After her father’s death, who was a professor, a young girl was alone, and was obliged to marry Soames, who was begging her to marry him nearly half a year. She marries without love, resting on the promises of her fiancé that in the case of unlucky marriage she’ll get freedom, and no one can force her to stay with him. Right from the beginning Irene understood what a terrible mess she had done, which became the cause both for her and Soames. She didn’t only love him, but also had hatred towards him. At first, she tried to force her, but with the time this disgust became unbearable. She was oppressed by the tedious life around her, where she was given a role of a beautiful thing s if she was a decoration or jewelry of her husband, possession of which gave him self confidence of having property. Soames loves her as himself, but this is a kind of ownership love and he always suffers from jealousy. So in the ball at uncle Rodger’s, he was looking fixedly and irritatingly how his wife was dancing with other men, but he didn’t dance with her, because in that period in their circle to dance with own wife was unpopular. He really left Irene alone in society, even when objective problems separated them; he followed her with eyes in which was boredom and worry. Soames always bought Irene lots of decorative things, jewelry, beautiful dresses, but it again was for the reason to show people that her wife is the most beautiful and she is best dressed. He doesn’t realize that it is not enough for woman to be happy, because there is not an inner relation between them. Her passiveness and silent appearance teases him, and with the time it grows to madness. He couldn’t understand Irene’s behaviour towards him, because he isn’t a drunker, he doesn’t owe money, play cards, he is not a rude person, and he doesn’t have illegal relations and always tries to spend his time at home. 42 Being successful at his work Soames entrusts the building of his new house in the suburb of London, at Robin Hill to Philip Bosinney. But he is worried about the sincere relation growing day by day between his wife and the young architect which is seemed to turn to a deep mutual feeling. Irene tries to speak about divorce, but it is useless, because Soames does not want even to listen to such ideas of Irene, he thinks that these are nonsense, and just she has a wrong idea about the responsibilities of woman at home, as a wife. Four years ago Soames was caught by the beauty and charm of Irene and he cannot accept the loss of what has been gained. These complicated relations are the object of rumor and gossip among the Forsytes. At first they say that Irene was not agreeing with her marriage, and then the gossips were about that she “wants to have a separate room”. She is getting detached from Soames day by day.
But Soames could not accept anyway her departure. In those times Bosinney died in a car accident. So Irene obliged to return home, but not forever, cause to live together with Soames was nearly deadly torture for her. So after a while she leaves the home, but this time forever. There are so many complications, multilateral characters in this novel that, but generally Soames is a central figure of the two trilogies. The author gave the description of this character from inner and outer side, with the eyes of friends and enemies, with his own ideas, ways of thinking and behaviour, with his treatment towards family, marriage, marital relations, also with his attitude to business world, society which he lives in, art, historical and political matters. He is quite a smart person, but he is limited by the thoughts which are really very strict in his surrounding, clan, he is a typical conservative person, bourgeois man. Being clever and talented by nature he put all his efforts hoarding and gathering money. Though he is of upper class society and he should have friends of his class and enjoy the life, he did not like such a life, there is not any desire in him to have friendships, enjoy parties, etc. His only thinking is Irene, unfortunately who does not care for Soames and always escapes closeness with him, which makes her out of reach and remote. His character of being “a man of property” prevails his good and mankind features, interferes with revealing of the good sides of his personality. First of all he is irreplaceable in the business sphere and relations and this professional honesty is due to his ability of keeping himself from risking. With such characters, with so many pluses Soames married a girl of lower clan which really happened rarely, and was shocking, but he has done it, because he loved Irene without anything, though this love was a kind of “property love”. She worthies more things for him, but there is not closeness and sincerity between them. 43 Soames feeling of property influences his life wholly, and generally he never compromised anything for his love and did not do extra thing to attract Irene’s attention; when bought portraits he calculated it for resale so it was a way of business and Irene also was a kind of property for him, she was a very beautiful, charming thing like a diamond or another jewelry for him, he liked to decorate her and show publicly that he has such a beautiful, lovely, alive property. He can’t even imagine that a woman can have her own point of view, likes, dislikes, her own will, and for her happiness she needs moral stability and spiritual relation with him. He tries to limit and govern life and pleasures, etc. He wants to see her just as he wishes. Always with smile, always charming, chic, dressing her bests, which bought by him to make her delicate for him. So, she had to be cute not for herself, but for him, because she was “a property” for him. So, his clan, his surrounding, his point of view interferes with common sense of love, he can’t understand that love and beauty should base on liberty. If a person is not free he/she cannot enjoy love or beauty, because each has his/her own thoughts of love and beauty, they are quite subjective to argue; so Soames’s “property love” could not satisfy and give pleasure to Irene. Soames Forsyte is a failure; he could not succeed both in family and in business. He failed as a human and also as a Forsyte. As a human he could not realize the importance of relations between man and woman, the intimate relations in the family.
Irene was a kind of woman who was admired by everyone with her beauty and charm. But her inner world was not revealed because she did not disclose herself, she is just portrayed as a beauty “Her identify remains the hermeneutic space at the centre of Galsworthy’s novel”. (21, p.57) Only when she befriended with old Jolyon, she could put forward her own consciousness. She speaks not keeps silent: “That night I went to the Embankment; a woman caught me by the dress. She told me about herself. When one knows what others suffer, one’s ashamed”. “One of those?” She nodded and horror stirred within old Jolyon, the horror of one who has never known a struggle with depression”. (27, p. 337) From the very beginning Soames’s and Irene’s relation was described in somehow strange. As a husband and wife their courteous scenes were not exciting. It also may be sign to the following situations by the author. “It had been one of those real devoted wooings which books and people praise, when the lover is at length rewarded for hammering the iron till it is malleable, and all must be happy ever after…” (14, p.50) 44 Soames is a Forsyte, but he is not a devil, he is just a man who has no feelings. And it makes him disgusting and unbearable. If a woman of humanistic views wants to live together with him, she would make her eyes blind and her ears deaf. Thus the topics of their talks would be only about money and money making. So his behaviors and treatments, his expectations from the spouse are quite predictable. “He could not understand what she found wrong with him. It was not as if he drank! Did he run into dept, or gamble, or swear; was he violent; were his friends rackety; did he stay out at night?” (14, p.49) Soames is an object of humour, in one side, because he never thinks himself guilty. According to his view he is an ideal man and husband, and Irene should appreciate and estimate such a husband. His limitations are not problem for him. He wants to get both the body and the soul of his wife. And for him it is quite a normal phenomenon. “Soames ... experienced a sense of exasperation amounting to pain, that he did not own her as it was his right to own her, that he could not, as by stretching out his hand to that rose, pluck her and sniff the very secrets of her heart”. (14, p.61) Galsworthy’s Soames Forsyte is a very complex character. He is a very brutal person, he never understands his wife, but he is also polite one, never hurt people, tries to be gentle to women, he buys everything for his wife, he wants to see his wife completely beautiful, and gives everything for it. He is powerful, because he has property, he attained the woman who he admired, but he is week, because he couldn’t keep her. Though he has so much property, he power his power couldn’t save his family. Galsworthy’s makes his reader to have a pity toward Soames deep in heart. He is a man who is abandoned by his wife. So, the reader can think that, may be Irene treats very cruelly, and she has no feeling, she is as cold as stone. It is painful for Soames, but he tries to conceal his grief. Irene does not give a good night kiss to her husband, maybe she is really is not a good wife, and it is Irene who is guilty in this parting. If something hurts Soames heart, he is a human, and he is mankind. So, why does Irene treat so roughly with his heart? But in fact, it is not such, and Irene just could not show her inner world, her humanistic ideas, which had no importance for Soames.
Actually, the writer had problem with Young Jolyon. He was one of the character’s who had something to do with Art and Beauty. Other characters were Irene and Bosinney. Galsworthy’s problem with this characters is that they are humanistic, and they are few; so the author himself was included to this few people of the society. Thus, in the background of the 45 novel there is a hidden war towards Forsytes. As Bosinneys, Irenes, and Galsworthy were few, this war continued secretly. The writer describes Forsytes property with a delineated taste. It is not only for reading and enjoying good words. Here we can find his point of attack. He wants to reveal the Forsytes world. Boasting with the horses, houses, drink, furniture they open the inner side of their aristocracy. Irene and Bosinney: One of the very important problems of the novel is the notion of Art. Art is embodied under the character of Bosinney. Another important factor is that, Irene was the representative of Beauty, who was in the world of Forsytes and wanted to escape from there. These two characters are the modules of Galsworthy’s. These two elements- Art and Property are interdependent and try to attack together the Property England. Though they are very few and week comparing with them, Art and Beauty try to join their forces against the whole proprietorship society. They want to rebel against the limitative world of Forsytes, against the blindness, against the coldness towards the beauty, feelings, emotions. Calling themselves aristocrat, Forsytes became limitative, routine persons, lack of any kind of feeling. In comparison with Old Jolyon, Irene and Bosinney are strong with their higher levels of morality, understanding Love, Beauty, and Art. But unlike Forsytes, they lack power and endurance for gaining their goal. For example; Old Jolyon spent sleepless nights, when he worked at his business. Forsytes did not have any desire for love, and they even did not lose any power and energy for it. The author gives an interesting quote to describe the difference of the feelings for Forsytes and non-Forsytes: “Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind”. (14, p.126) Bosinney had his own way of thinking about Love, Art and Property. He had o lot of chances about his career. But the author showed him as having less power for it. He could not estimate only career, and to abandon his love, his art. So he failed in his way of rising in career. It was related to his humanistic views. It was difficult for a man like Bosinney to survive in the world of Forsytes. He could not pretend, and to show himself as a Forsyte on the surface, as if he also was interested with money making. The sparkling life of Forsytes was very boring for Bosinney, he could not understand even the meaning of their luxurious way of living, their dresses, manners, etc: “Soames ... fixed his gaze on Bosinney's tie, which was far from being in the perpendicular; he was unshaven too, and his dress not remarkable for order”. (14, p.87-8) We can’t say that, there is such a person, who never uses masking of feelings and emotions. But Bosinney’s use of hiding his inner side was as little as his look. It 46 had somehow a bad influence on his career. If a person tries to do great things, and to make a good business he should reduce his feelings somehow. So, his love and art became obstacles in the way of rising in his career
Thus, if a person cannot make his own life, and causes to the misfortune of the people around him, especially, who are close to him, he cannot be accepted as a good character. The author gives such passive and flat characters in order to show the shallowness of the Forsyte’s world. He tries to demonstrate that, in such a society, where Forsytizm rules at every sphere of live, humanistic view and the carrier of it cannot exist. From the other side, if we go deep into the relation between Irene and Bosinney, which is actually is not demonstrated in details, we can observe that, there was not any unforgettable love between. There was only a short period affection. So, why Irene married to him if she did not love him? Why she had left such a husband, who loved her so much? From the first sight we can see a tendency in this situation. But investigating deeply the situation, we can see the essence of the matter. Irene is not a Foryste, and in the world of Forsytes is dull for her. She wants to escape from this world.
So, Bosinney is a person who understands her feelings. He is “a ship who can
sail her away the Forsytes”. But their love could not save them. They could not survive and protect their love. Even in the next chapters we became witnesses of her new marriage. But we also should mention that, the situation and life forced her to act like that. Also Galsworthy used very few dialogues between Irene and Bosinney. So, it is very difficult to see directly their love to each-other. For example, Irene and Bosinney’s meeting in Botanical was describes very touchy. But we can say that, author’s experiment of giving such an oblique description of love could not convince the reader to the existence of a great affection between the lovers. Generally, Bosinney’s feelings were not demonstrated directly. Even when he was engaged to June, there is not such an evident scene of love and affection. Parting with June did not touch him, at all. His feelings are quite cold from the surface. Art is a victim: The author loved Ada so much that, he wanted and also believed them be together in both worlds. Galsworthy believed in the power of art, at least before the war. He wrote about it that “man is a creature slowly, and mainly by means of art, emerging from the animal into the human being, and…” but in the novel we became the witnesses of the Art-victim phenomenon under the destructive character of the humanity.
Bosinney and Irene underwent the main destruction, who became the pure representatives of art and beauty in the novel. Old Jolyon and his son young Jolyon are partially artists, but even they could not help the victims of property, because the minority side should obey the rules of majority. Irene again returns to the Soames’s cage, because she is obliged and Soames’s will is to keep her there for the end of her life, but there is no harmony in the end. The author returned again to the Forsytes, and the events turned their side into another direction. So, Soames’s plans of keeping Irene with him failed. Even Soames himself became better from the previous chapter. All the changes come with the World War I.
Also we can say that, the war period was not the only reason for the change of the writer’s outlook. Galsworthy’s internal voices also made him change into optimistic, his inner struggle was in the need of relaxation, though the war scattered a lot of idealistic views of the author. But we cannot exactly drop a line between conscious and unconscious decisions of the author. Anyway, it is clear that, the change is quite evident. Bosinney and Irene personified True Art and True Beauty in the cycle of Forsytes. They have special place in the fall of the Forsyte clan. And also, they have earned special interest and respect of the readers. True Art and True Beauty shows more interest in the novel. So, the author is again optimistic about the future of the Art and Beauty, though the representatives of Beauty and Art became the victims of it. Galsworthy is hopeful about the humanity that, they will develop “from animal world towards the human being”, and in this way art will be a kind of means. But it does not mean that, Galsworthy presented in the novel variety of scenes which show humanistic ideas and various forms of art. The Forsyte’s art and beauty are of philistine type. Their brains are not programmed to think on higher things. They thoughts of art and beauty are given in satiric tones. They are busy with other things, which are important for them, which provide their material needs. Their moralities are dependent from material things greatly. These material things give them power and feeling of higher class. At every social occasion they are proud of having more material things, pieces of art which are bought for a great deal of money. It gives them pleasure. In Swithin’s dining-room room “a cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalactite above its centre, radiating over large gilt-framed mirrors, slabs of marble on the tops of side-tables, and heavy gold chairs with crewel-worked seats”. (14, p.35) Bosinney and Irene are the real representatives of Art and Beauty, but unlike Swithin, some Forsytes also have a notion of morality. Both Old and Young Jolyon tried to keep in balance their Forsyte features with their insight feelings of Art and Beauty. The richest of the Forsytes is Old Jolyon. But he has a sense of art. Here we should mention that, Old Jolyon’s supremacy is due to his feeling of Art, because he made his money with the help of valuable pieces of art. So, his interest towards art is related again with material things. For Old Jolyon art is interesting, but money is important. Like all Forsytes he also gets his inspiration from money, it is money that inspires him to get different artistic pieces, which can produce money. It gives him pleasure and relaxation to buy things which can be sold for more money in close future. “…it was pleasant to think that in the after life he could get more for things than he had given”. (14, p.20) It was quite natural him to buy everything with money, even love and beauty. To his mind, a man should not think about things which he had not paid for. If you want to a wonderful piece of art you should pay, if want to have a beautiful woman you should pay, so everything can be bought and sold in the world of Forsytes. Love, Beauty, Art, in general, everything is equal to money. Everything is business, everything is property. This kind of life is deeply influenced their heart and blood. The Forsytes are not real art lovers, they are commercial art love.
Young Jolyon tries to gather such kind of pictures which can be sold for good money. So, he began with the watercolour drawings of London, and it brought a good deal of money to him. After the death of Young Jolyon, when his son Jon organized an exhibition of his father’s pictures, he was proud of his father. As we know, Galsworthy spoke little about Young Jolyon in the first chapter of novel, because his humanity, progressiveness was predictable. His enlightened viewpoints are shown in the dialogue with Bosinney. Actually, the author puts his own views of art, nature and society into this dialogue. So, Galsworthy puts forward his critic view of artists, scientist, religious people who, in fact, are not the devoted members of their profession, and think only about making money with their work. Young Jolyon reveals them telling Bosinney that “wealth and security that makes everything possible; makes your art possible, makes literature, science, even religion, possible”. (14, p.189) In fact, the Forsytes do not care for these things, they even do not believe, but their wealth, reputation helps them survive. Because most of these architects, painters, scientists have no principles, they have not any notion of art, beauty, nature. They only do their work and earn money; consequently, they are Forsytes, too. Only few of them have an attitude towards they work, and are responsible for their artistic pieces. “Art, literature, survive by virtue of the few cranks who really believe in such things…” (14, p.189) 49 Young Jolyon’s progressive points of view of art and society reflected the change of view of marriage, unlike other Forsytes. To his mind, Forsytes carry their business principles into their family, that’s why humanistic people like Bosinney and Irene could not bear their “ideal family portret”. It was unbearable for Irene to live together with Soames, though he had materially everything. “… to enforce what they called their rights over a man, to bring him up to the mark; so like them to carry their business principles into their private relations!”. (14, p.187) Like other Forsytes, Young Jolyon thought that, the sanctity of the marriage, family, relations is related with the property. They did not try to hide it, contrary to it, they were proud of. Everything is property, and the property is the core of everything. “…the sanctity of the marriage tie is dependent on the sanctity of the family, and the sanctity of the family is dependent on the sanctity of property”. (14, p.192) But we can‟t say that all Forsytes progressive, and we can observe their humanistic views with the time. Some of them are Forsytes to all their life, some of them are progressive, and others like Old Jolyon simply try to enjoy the life, and does not care for anything. He is not pedantic as his son, it is not his way of living, and he is not advanced in his views, too. He just loves to live, and enjoy the life. He likes nature; he becomes inspired by natural things. So we can’t say that he is just a blind philistine as other Forsytes. Of course he is the member of Forsytes‟ world, and he also has typical characters of them. He keeps an exquisite piece of art in his house which is a china group, and he bought it when he was a bachelor, but still he remembers the amount of money given for this piece of art. “Dresden china groups of young men in tight knee breeches, at the feet of full-bosomed ladies nursing on their laps pet lambs, which old Jolyon had bought when he was a bachelor and thought so highly of in these days of degenerate taste”.
His view of authority of money was not different from others, he just judged about the relations between art and money differently. When Swithin proudly spoke about his amount of money, and the expensive Italian statuary which he bought, it was not impressive for Old Jolyon. To his mind, he could not spend so much time only to one picture, and discuss the price. Instead he could buy other expensive artistic pieces, enjoy the life around him. Though Old Jolyon was full of energy and enthusiasm towards life, the ageing process and loneliness influence him, too. When he was young his thoughts of natural world was limited with the city life, with the urbanization. But with the years he understood what was the real nature and beauty. His interests had changed their direction. Actually, not only the age 50 but also the loneliness had a great role in this process. He adored spending his holidays in the nature, in the mountains, in deep thoughts, nearly in meditation. It is close to religion than philistinism. Forsytes knew Bosinney and Irene good enough in order charge about them. And even they matched them to each other, because Bosinney was a vulgar romantic artist, to their view, and Irene was an embodiment of art. So, they were similar to each other. “…looked worn…haggard, hollow in the cheeks beneath those broad, high cheekbones, though without any appearance of ill-heart”. (14, p.187) So, it was quite natural that Irene loved such a person, who was too far from demonstrating and being proud of his property. Forsytes spoke about it as a fact of being lower in the society. They could not understand the moral sides of the situation. Young Jolyon is rational enough to understand the artistic values of Irene. When he first met her in the garden he tried to find suitable words to describe her beauty and sensuality. She was so nice and delicate that, the words were not enough to explain correctly. Some other Forsytes were not so deeply impressed by the sensuality of Irene, but they also felt something different in her. Even some of them warned Soames to be careful with her, because he could have trouble to cope with her. Even some members thought of her as a goddess. To be sensual, to have feelings, to understand nature and art meant to be holly for Forsytes, because they could not be like that. It was not manly for them. It was great, it was different. So, Irene was like a goddess for them. But goddess could not exist among people, so the family of Soames and Irene could not continue much time. Forsyte and non-Forsyte, even goddess could not live together. Soames Forsyte wanted to have Irene with egoistic feeling. But it was impossible. They were the two other people of the two worlds. It was really impossible to live a happy marriage together. Soames understood it when she saw Bosinney for the first time. Her complexion became happy, even the colour of her face turned to her dress colour, she became cheerful. Her breath became faster, she smelled like a flower. We also should mention that, the impact of Bosinney and Irene to the world of Forsytes is much more than that of Forsytes themselves. They can unite nature, love, beauty. They can unite humanistic people. But Forsytes have not such kind of power, even if they have wealth and power. Irene and Bosinney could destroy some remnant of old period with their unity. But, at the same time they were destroyed by the disgusted world of Forsytes. They were few, did not have so much power, even if the have unity.
From the surface the Forsyte family can have such an impression that they ignore everything, which is not connected with them, but with the deep observation we can understand that they are not indifferent towards the events happening around them. They are afraid of any kind of influence to all Forsytes. So, they keep unity in order to prevent forthcoming collapse of the Forsyte world. The appearance of Bosinney and Irene shook the world of Forsytes. They were different from them, at the same time horrible. They could predict the collapse of the power of property. That’s why, none of the Forsytes wanted to see them together. In the beginning of the novel Irene was introduced as a woman, who was a good wife, bellowed woman of her husband. But the upcoming events show the real mission of this beautiful like goddess woman. “She was one of those women…born to be loved and love, who when not loving not living…” (14, p.49) She loved and was loved, but there was not a balance to finish this love with a good end. Neither Bosinney nor Irene could strive for their love among so many illminded people. The society itself prevented their love, because the quite a great portion of them was ill-minded. As Forsytes were in power they had a great role in the society, their impact to the people solved more thing in the society. If Bosinney and Irene had so much power, and well-balanced place in the society, they could show the power of their love. Also we can see that it was the tactic of the author to make the Forsyte family powerful, and to show the lovers weak. And Forsytes could not understand the love in its all colours. They could not appreciate love as it exists. They failed to realize that “Love is no hothouse flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed blown along the road by a wild wind”. (14, p.126) The author is sure that Irene could not have such a power to cope with so many forces. She had power in herself, but her inner strength is not enough for it. Even at one place Old Jolyon understood that she was very dangerous, but could not explain the reason. Irene’s inner power sprang over her side; she could threaten Forsytes that something could happen. But the author again saves his heroine, and made the situation that love even can be harmful for himself/herself. The person who is in love looses control himself, and cannot charge his behaviours. But Bosinney is another side of the blame. His story differs from Irene’s. He had chances to increase himself, to have a good place in the society, unlike Irene who stayed at home waiting her husband, who only demand from her to be beautiful and charming for him. But Bosinney risings and failings are related with the house which had been construction for Forsytes. He had good career chances, which were ruined by the house which opened him a good way for the future. It was due to his character. He compromised, and believed that one day he would be the winner. He believed the saint power of love, which was in the first place in his life and thoughts. He tried to wonder the world of Forsytes with his genuine works, but he failed. There is such a deep hollow between Irene and Soames that even they could not find any kind of common interests. Though he was a Forsyte, though he did everything for money, Soames bought exquisite pieces of art, which could be interesting for Irene. but she even did not look them at, she could not enjoy anything done by Soames.
She welcomed her husband when he came home, tried to look beautiful and tidy. Bosinney and Irene suffered from love, but we can’t see any kind of direct scenes of their parted heart. The author didn’t use direct dialogues to describe the love, passion and suffer of the lovers. Instead he tried to show their feelings with the eyes, emotions on the faces. They are not active lovers, Irene and Bosinney did not struggle openly and furiously. May be the author tried to point that the lovers are full of humanistic ideas, and could not accept furious attempts. This kind of characterization is interesting, but, at the same time, the reader may not be convinced. If there is love, and lovers who can sacrifice everything that they have, they should be active. From the other side, if lover are flat, and could not struggle for their aim, why should Soames compromise them? The description of the relation between Irene and Soames was also somehow interesting from the point of view of marital relations. As if something lacks in the relation, so, the crack between the spouses was obvious from the beginning. “It had been one of those real devoted wooings which books and people praise, when the lover is at length rewarde for hammering the iron till it is malleable, and all must be happy ever after…” (14, p.50) Though Soames is brutal, he is a strong character. When he raped Irene he was convinced the reader to hate him. But then, after marriage he showed himself as a good husband. He nearly did everything to satisfy his wife, to earn her respect. At one place, when he called Irene “cold as a stone” he earned the pity from the reader. Because his love is one sided, he loves, but not loved. He is a good husband, a successful businessman, the lover of art, everything is ideal with him, but only the love of his wife can make him happy. Forgetting and forgiving his past brutality the reader can believe his pitiful situation. Bosinney could not play the same game with Forsytes. At the beginning he tried to that as if he also was interested only in money, and he made art money property, but the mask was torn very quickly. It was difficult for a person of art, nature and beauty, pretend to be as a real businessman. His dresses, behaviours, manners differed from Forsytes, and it was so apparently for them that, even they called he “unusual-looking man”. His unusual looking was related with his extraordinary inner side. He really differed from Soames and others. His play of being Forsyte did not continue so much. Even in one dialogue with Soames he revealed himself. They could not come to the same conclusion with the project of the new house. He treated so pettish with Soames that even at one point Soames thought that he would reject to build that construction.