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How Many Miles to Babylon?
- Alec Moore
- Protestant
rich Dublin
boy
- Isolated loads - 'As a child I was alone',
'traditional barriers of class and
education'
- Unusual friendship with Jerry
- Swan metaphor - they mate
for life (they are mates 4 life)
- 'The two swans rocking gently on the lake'
- 'The two swans rocking gently on the lake'
- Swan metaphor - they mate
for life (they are mates 4 life)
- Serious parental issues
- 'Their only meeting place was the
child', 'I was the only thing that made
them not alone'
- Has to hide his friendship with
the peasant boy
- 'Their only meeting place was the
child', 'I was the only thing that made
them not alone'
- Protestant
rich Dublin
boy
- Violence
- World War I
- Violence as an accepted
part of society.
- Major Glendinning considers his
violence very noble and expects
complete respect & order.
- 'Strict impersonal
discipline', 'make a man'
out of Alec
- Thinks of soldiers as cogs in a machine
- 'There must be no flaw in the machinery'
- 'There must be no flaw in the machinery'
- 'Strict impersonal
discipline', 'make a man'
out of Alec
- Jerry sentenced to death by firing squad
- 'I hated to think of him searching and knowing
all the time the rules.'
- 'The beating of our hearts was like
the cracking wings of swans'
- 'Deserters must be made an example of'
- 'I hated to think of him searching and knowing
all the time the rules.'
- Major Glendinning considers his
violence very noble and expects
complete respect & order.
- Violence as an accepted
part of society.
- World War I
- Cultural context
- Ireland before & during WWI
- Ireland before & during WWI
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