Now THAT is an interesting analogy Alek!! Because JB Priestly would say yes and use the phrase 'Angel'. And perhaps Chesterton also.
I don't actually think Victorians had the correct terminology for such a thing - but certainly, to me, it would seem possible to class Florizel and Holmes as existential (in the general sense)... because their moral code is so personalised and their decision making is from moment to moment. Camus/Sartre etc are of course post WW2 - but there are many antecedents i feel.
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Date: 2009-01-19 10:23 pm (UTC)I don't actually think Victorians had the correct terminology for such a thing - but certainly, to me, it would seem possible to class Florizel and Holmes as existential (in the general sense)... because their moral code is so personalised and their decision making is from moment to moment. Camus/Sartre etc are of course post WW2 - but there are many antecedents i feel.