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Robyn invariably views the world through memories of works of literature she has studied. This can be seen given her experience of the Pringles Factory. It is an environment entirely alien to her and she must claim on her knowledge of literature to express it to herself. Lodge may be trying to illustrate that to come to terms with a thing, to truly understand it and arrange it within our experience and conception of the world; we must first find terms to express it. The terms we use, however are by necessity, not our own but those acquired and absorbed in the course of our experiences with culture, language and literature. So she uses D.H Lawrence's lines to express industrial Rummidge - 'The grey, gritty hopelessness of it all.' As she steps onto the factory floor she feels 'more than ever like Dante in the Inferno'. Other allusions are more subtle or where Lodge makes a passing reference or quotation without lending the reader the work and author. However, most people should recognize that where Robyn says 'O Brave New World where only the managing directors have jobs' she is borrowing a phrase from Miranda as she contemplates the Milan she has never seen in the Tempest. Interestingly however, 'Brave New World' is also a book by Aldous Huxley about the horrors of advanced industrialization - an overdeveloped scientific and technological age. She is referring to them both simultaneously, thus where and what meaning is intended becomes blurred. When Robyn later describes Danny Ram as a 'noble savage' she is borrowing a phrase passed back and forth through centuries of literature and with a signified meaning that is similarly wide and uncertain.customwritings When she uses the phrase she is at once referring to the work of Dickens, and Rousseau, the characters of Caliban in 'The Tempest' or John in 'Brave New World' and so forth. This is the important aspect of the idea of intertextuality - that the language we use to express ourselves is never our own. Elsewhere Robyn talks about the 'satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution' which is an allusion to Blake's 'Jerusalem' and Lodge tells us that as the snow was general all over Rummidge, she mused, playing variations on a famous passage by James Joyce to divert herself'. The passage in question will certainly be the beautiful closing lines of the short story 'The Dead' from the Dubliners collection, but Lodge does not provide it here. Perhaps the author means to identify the simple truth that language is our key to understand feelings and if we do not have it we are excluded from them:

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