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  • Power

    • September 19, 2018
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      One of the key aspects of most narratives is the nature and expression of power.  Characters are enmeshed in a web of social and political forces within which they possess greater or lesser agency.  Where people exist within these power relationships and how they respond to them goes a long way to defining who
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  • Alphonse Moreau

    • September 1, 2018
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      Alphonse Moreau completes our coterie of bad guys in part 1 who are under the direction of Bechard.  He is a minor character who only appears in chapter 8 (‘Threads’) and although, unlike ‘Paul’, we get to know little about him as a person nonetheless he is significant to the novel in several ways.
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  • The Doge

    • August 15, 2018
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      The Doge of Venice was the Republic’s chief magistrate and ruler, the elected heir to a long and glorious tradition of rulership that was admired throughout Europe.  Until the advent of modern democracies one of the trickiest things to sort out in the governance of any state was organising a replacement ruler without either
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