Howards end
Type
Label
Howards end
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Howards end
Medium
videorecording DVD
Oclc number
400698142
Summary
The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel, who inherits part of the estate of Ruth Wilcox, an upper-class woman whom she had befriended. The film's principal characters are divided by caste: aristocratic industrial Henry Wilcox; middle-echelon Margaret and her sister Helen; and working-class clerk Leonard Bast and his wife. The personal and social conflicts among these characters ultimately result in tragedy for Bast and disgrace for Wilcox, but the film's wider theme remains the need, in the words of the novel's famous epigram, to "only connect" with other people, despite boundaries of gender, class, or petty grievance
Target audience
general
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