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Power
- January 28, 2023
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No CommentsOne 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 -
Bechard and the Southerner
- August 7, 2022
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This is our evil bro pairing – the boss (Bechard) and his right-hand (the Southerner). It’s a standard enough combination but in our case the right-hand has a degree of independence which is atypical. The Southerner, after all, is a boss in his own right. His relationship with Bechard is purely a commercial one. He -
Stefano, Abbé de Bernis, Thibaut Bechard and God
- May 28, 2022
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In a previous ‘Behind the scenes’ blog, we looked at how we had gone about representing that key aspect of eighteenth-century French society which was religion. One of the ways we did this was to include characters who either had an official spiritual role or were conspicuously religious. Three characters in this regard who are
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