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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 cha-racters are the modules of Galsworthy‟s. These two elements- Art and Property are interde-pendent 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 sur-vive 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

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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. So, both lovers are not rounded characters. Because if we treat them like this, we should accept that, Forsytizm is a good quality. Thus, if a person can-not 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 de-monstrate 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 unfor-gettable 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 affec-tion between the lovers.

Generally, Bosinney‟s feelings were not demonstrated directly. Even when he was en-gaged 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.