{"id":199,"date":"2019-03-21T00:25:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2023-10-17T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T16:13:59","slug":"rule-britannia-mockery-or-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/rule-britannia-mockery-or-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"RULE BRITANNIA &#8211; Mockery or Prophecy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rule-Britannia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-201\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day going through my grandparents\u2019 books, one stood out among the rest. I don\u2019t know whether it was because I was feeling nostalgic and homesick, but as soon as I saw the title \u2018Rule Britannia\u2019 I couldn\u2019t get the patriotic melody by Thomas Arne out of my head. However, what drew my attention the most was that the book was written by Daphne du Maurier, mostly known for novels such as \u2018Rebecca\u2019, \u2018My Cousin Rachel\u2019, \u2018The Birds\u2019, etc. Don\u2019t ask me why, but I thought that the title of the book and the author\u2019s name clashed; it looked odd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I began to read\nthe synopsis, the following lines blew my mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe time is a few years in the future. England has withdrawn from the Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union \u2013 political, military and economic \u2013 with the United States.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What?! <\/em>This book was first published in 1972 and as I\nsat on the floor staring at the book, I couldn\u2019t help but think it was like\nreading a Brexit article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the book first came out, its reviewers described it as \u201csilly\u201d. Furthermore, in 1993, Daphne du Maurier\u2019s biographer, Margaret Forster, went as far as saying it was \u201cthe poorest novel she ever wrote\u201d. Now, in 2019, the plot doesn\u2019t seem as \u201csilly\u201d or as far-fetched; Chapter 11 depicts what could be a contemporary picture of the United Kingdom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:left\" class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cPlans for Great Britain herself would take some time to formulate. It must be recognised that her heyday as a great industrial nation had now ended, but a new future lay ahead for her as the historical and cultural centre of the English-speaking peoples.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Daphne du Maurier was a woman writer who did not wish to be categorised as a romantic novelist and followed up on an idea of \u00aba funny novel \u2026 mocking everything\u00bb. Although the novel was shunned, even laughed at as people believed it to be implausible, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.es\/Britannia-Virago-Modern-Classics-English-ebook\/dp\/B008258S5Y\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1553201033&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=rule+britannia+daphne+du+maurier\">Rule Britannia<\/a>\u2019 is probably the most relevant read of current Britain; a testimony to Daphne du Maurier\u2019s Brexit prophecy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day going through my grandparents\u2019 books, one stood out among the rest. I don\u2019t know whether it was because I was feeling nostalgic and homesick, but as soon as I saw the title \u2018Rule Britannia\u2019 I couldn\u2019t get the patriotic melody by Thomas Arne out of my head. However, what drew my attention the most was that the book was written by Daphne du Maurier, mostly known for novels such as \u2018Rebecca\u2019, \u2018My Cousin Rachel\u2019, \u2018The Birds\u2019, etc&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/rule-britannia-mockery-or-prophecy\/\"> Leer m\u00e1s<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Leer m\u00e1s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[49,45,47,48,46],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-books","tag-brexit","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-women-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibibloomsfree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}