Coming of Age as a Believer

This is Christ Church at Oxford where Charles went in Brideshead Revisited.  This picture shows how influenced the school was with the church. There is a large amount of money and prestige put into this church. In this large, eccentric, and colorful stain glass window displays the amount of money that is put into the church at Oxford.   

Charles was an agnostic and had a hard time with Catholicism. This was a struggle for him going to Christ Church where you are expected to act a certain way. He states, “Oh dear, it’s very difficult being a Catholic.” Being a Catholic meant you had to follow their rules, such as not getting a divorce. 

This is pictures on a wall of the Castle of Gripsholm , the Swedish Palace, and Stockholm Town Hall at the Eltham Palace. It shows that the people who lived there, Stephan and Ginie, loved to travel. Having these images in their home showed their guests the types of places they had seen and what had inspired their taste. These places thought them who they were and what the thought about life. Charles felt the same way after meeting Sebastian. Sebastian taught him who he truly was. 

The Brock Era represented the change with Protestant. As the religions changed so did the architecture and style of the buildings. You can see in this picture at the Hampton Court Palace, how different it looks in comparison to the architecture before. This change and skepticism in religion is the same things that Charles was going through when he was not sure exactly what it meant to be a Catholic.  

This picture at the ceiling at the Hampton Court Palace shows James the II who is a Catholic being defeated by William who is a Protestant. The weapons in the pictures below show the struggles of war. This is change in religion was them coming of age as a believer and changing things even though they had been the same for a long time.