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successful, are dissatisfied with their professions and contemplate changing them. Monty sees himself as a schoolmaster, while Blaise wants to become a doctor. The theme of doubleness extends to the two types of love, sacred and profane. Blaise feels "that
Harriet was his sacred love and Emily his profane" He sees himself as leading "a double life" and as "a man of two truths, since both these lives were valuable and true".
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away from home when visiting Emily. After
Harriet finds out about the affair, the still grieving Monty is called upon to be her confidant as well. Monty's friend Edgar Demarnay, who was in love with Sophie, arrives on the scene and becomes embroiled in the situation, trying to "save" both Monty, whose grief threatens to cause an emotional breakdown, and Harriet, whose part he takes against Blaise.
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Luca. For years he has been putting off telling
Harriet about Emily, but finally is forced to do so when Luca secretly visits Hood House and the truth threatens to come out. Blaise vacillates between the two women, hoping to be able to maintain relations with both, but eventually he chooses to leave Harriet and live with Emily.
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The novel contains descriptions of at least twenty dreams that are recalled by
Harriet, Monty, Blaise and Harriet's son David. These dreams are disturbing and frightening, combining "some mixture of horror or terror, grief and fascinated pity". The subject of dreams is also relevant to Blaise's work
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Doubleness is an important theme of the novel. Blaise has relationships with two women, who initially inhabit two separate spheres of life. Each of them has one son. The book has two main male characters, Monty and Blaise, both of whom have snobbish mothers. Both Monty and Blaise, while financially
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Montague (Monty) Small, the
Gavenders' neighbour and family friend, is a popular detective novelist whose wife Sophie has recently died. He knew about Blaise's affair and helped him by inventing a fictitious patient who required overnight visits to London, thus providing Blaise with an excuse to be
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Gavender is a psychotherapist with a wife and a sixteen-year-old son, living near London in a comfortable home called Hood House. Unknown to his wife Harriet, he has been having an affair with another woman, Emily McHugh, for nine years, and Blaise and Emily have an eight-year-old son named
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notes that Titian's painting is a "puzzle painting" in that a single model is shown both nude and elaborately dressed, so that the boundary between sacred and profane love is unclear. Rather, they are presented as "cases of a single principle of Eros in two different modes of existence and in two
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found the title "the most consistently provocative thing" about the novel. It is too simple, he concluded, to equate
Harriet and Emily with sacred and profane love respectively, and to see them as opposites. Instead, Amis suggested that Murdoch's point is that the two varieties of love are
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pointed out that Blaise's "sacred" love for
Harriet is characterized by "selfishness and possessiveness", while his erotic "profane" attachment to Emily has "a depth and a purity, in some ways self-forgetfulness", making a clear moral distinction between the two states impossible. The
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was widely and generally favourably reviewed, and won the 1974
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