Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...
Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...
Kutuzov is portrayed as an old, wise man who knows through experience that no strategic plan can help predict or lead to the outcome of a battle. ... On the front, panicked soldiers from an unexpected attack suddenly turned around and galloped into a sea of bullets. ... "Very much a Russian and of the old stamp, he instinctively distrusted all liberal innovations, and the constitutional ideas which came from the West- This can be seen in the novel through Tolstoy's portrayal of foreign genearls. ... The gnarled fingers, the scars, the old anguish and mistrust w...
At first, Crusoe can be characterized as a man who is in large part a product of his environment and the ideals of current society. ... In just this comment, Crusoe is shown to be an economical man with a moral impulse. ... However, upon realizing the need for God in his life and the importance of practicing religious values, he revises his schedule to include his new way of living along with the old. ... The man who wrote this list proves to have a significantly different perspective on life than the man who created the one early in the novel, where God was not even mentioned, let alone place...
The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his role of inquisitor, refusing to discriminate between martyr and heretic, for example. ...
