Faith

Question 1

What did Evelyn Waugh write for the Daily express in 1930

Answer 1

In the present phase of European history the essential is … between Christianity and chaos

Civilisation … came into being through Christianity

Christianity is essential to civilisation … it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries

Question 2

When and where did Waugh write that civilisation came into being through Christianity and that Christianity is essential for civilisation

Answer 2

Daily express

1930

Question 3

In EIAE what does Cha day about Seba religion

Enigma

Answer 3

“Sebastian’s faith was an enigma to me at that time, but not one which I felt particularly concerned to solve. I had no religion.”

Question 4

Seb joke about being good

Answer 4

Who was it who used to pray O god make me good but not yet

Question 5

What does Charles say abt religion being nonsense religion and how does S respond

Answer 5

S: “Is ir nonsense? I wish it were. It sometimes sounds terribly sensible to me.”

Question 6

How does Sebastian summarise Catholicism

Lovely

Answer 6

It’s a lovely idea

C: but you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea

S: but I do. That’s how I believe

Question 7

Sebastian on Charles inability to understand his faith

Answer 7

If you can’t see, you can’t

Question 8

Brideshead describing agnosticism as an infection

Answer 8

Is there much of that at your college. … it’s everywhere

Question 9

Seb in hiding faith pg81

Answer 9

Describes catholic’s as different “particularly in this country, where they’re so few”
Everything they think important is different from other people. They try and hide it as much as they can, but it comes out all the time.”

Question 10

How did Waugh describe role of religion in the book

Answer 10

Operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters

Question 11

Lovely idea dialogue

Answer 11

S: its a lovely idea
C: but you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea
S: but I do. That’s how I believe.

Question 12

Lady marchnain on how being rich makes her a Martyr

Answer 12

beautiful things
Now I realise that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor have always been the favourites of God and his saints.

Covet - yearn to possess
Obsession with possession

Question 13

Charles was untouched by what about Lady M

Answer 13

I was as untouched by her faith as I was by her charm

Question 14

The chapel seemed to be

Answer 14

have been moulded in plasticine

Question 15

Some descriptions of chapel

Answer 15

Arts-and-crafts style
Flower-spangled meadows 
Frisking lambs 
Bright colours 
Altar steps had a carpet of grass-green

Question 16

Sebastian saying he wished he liked catholic’s more

Answer 16

S: i wish I liked catholic’s more
C: they seem just like other people
S: my dear Charles, that’s exactly what they’re not - particularly in this country, where they’re so few. (…) everything they think important is different from other people. They try and hide it as much as they can, but it comes out all the time

Question 17

Daily express 1930 titles of Waugh’s article

Answer 17

Converted to Rome: why it has happened to me

Question 18

What does Waugh say in his 1930 article in the Daily Express, Converted to Rome: why it has happened to me

Answer 18

Christianity is essential to civilisation

It is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries

Question 19

Brideshead conversation with Charles and Cordelia on beauty of chapel

Answer 19

C: I think it’s beautiful’ said Cordelia, with tears in her eyes
B: is it Good Art?
C: (…) probably in 80 years it will be greatly admired

Question 20

What did Waugh describe the role of religion in the novel as

Answer 20

Operation of divine grace On a group of diverse but closely connected characters

Question 21

The essential issue is

Answer 21

Between Christianity and chaos

1930 article

Question 22

Father brown said

Answer 22

‘ I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread

Question 23

Significance of a twitch upon the thread throughout the three books

Answer 23

Lady Marchmain reads it in book 1
Cordelia references it and quotes it in book 2
And book 3 is titled it
Threads the books together

Question 24

Which painting does Charles compare Julia to

Answer 24

The awakened conscience by William Holman Hunt

Question 25

When Charles sees LORD marchmain making the cross quote

Answer 25

And a phrase came back to me from childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom

Question 26

Context of : and a phrase came back to me from childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom

Answer 26

Book of Matthew where a temple breaks in two where Christianity splits from Judaism

Parallel for Charles Catholicism breaking off from his agnosticism

Question 27

When Charles resdiscovers the chapel

Answer 27

The chapel show no ill-effects of its long neglect; the art-nouveau paint was as fresh and bright as ever
I said a prayer, an ancient, newly-learned form of words, and left

Question 28

How lonely the city stands

Answer 28

Quomodo sedet sola civitas

Question 29

What light does Charles find in the chapel

Answer 29

A small red flame

There I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones

Question 30

Rothstein on Julia’s faith and a quote

Answer 30

A repressed identity firmly interiorised during youth
Following her sin speech she mentions mummy dying with it; Christ dying with it, nailed hand and foot; hanging over the bed in the night nursery; hanging year after year

Question 31

What did Cordelia day about Sebastian and holiness generally

Answer 31

No one is ever holy without suffering