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Casanova’s Facade
- May 30, 2020
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No CommentsThe surface Casanova presents to outsiders is one of supreme confidence. The audience understands from the beginning that this is only partly true. The conflict between this public persona and private reality adds interest in a couple of ways. Firstly, in how it will play out. To what extent will the inconsistencies and contradictions reveal -
Rough Justice
- May 23, 2020
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- Category: Casanova
By the standards of his time, Casanova would not have been regarded as an overly aggressive man. He would not, for example, physically coerce a woman into having sex. If she resisted and he could not persuade her to change her mind then he would not persevere. This was very different to the attitudes of -
Perfect parenting in the eighteenth century
- May 16, 2020
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- Category: Flashbacks
It’s a rare bookshop that doesn’t have shelves groaning under the weight of books advising parents how to rear their offspring. They are, of course, pretty much guaranteed money spinners, exploiting as they do the anxiety of mums and dads. The shocking/reassuring reality is that the typical impact of the average parent upon
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