The waters of river and sea represent a kind of freedom, a liberty which, as Iris Murdoch writes, enables man “to exist sanely without fear and to perceive what is real.” As settings in fiction, the riverbank and seashore are rich in potential, offering a sense of destiny and suggesting the possibility of self-truth and self-knowledge. In British literature, the rural costal setting-shadowed by cliffs, tugged by the constant movement of the sea—becomes the site of revelation and generates the energy that brings characters to a new level of self-awareness. The river’s embankments, bridges and tunnels often mark specific stages of revelation.
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