I should have paid more attention to that aspect. I thought it was more of a backdrop to 1) give the men roles in society 2) support their swashbuckling characters 3) provide a sense of urgency for Roxane to commit to Christian and 4) create a way to kill him off. Whether there was more commentary to it than that, I don't know.
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I don't think it does, but what do you all think and why?
I should have paid more attention to that aspect. I thought it was more of a backdrop to 1) give the men roles in society 2) support their swashbuckling characters 3) provide a sense of urgency for Roxane to commit to Christian and 4) create a way to kill him off. Whether there was more commentary to it than that, I don't know.
I had the same feeling, cl. I really didn't think much about the war. What was your opinion, Ben?
I only brought it up because it seems like the sort of thing we would discuss.
The warfare was so archaic and foreign to our modern notions that I don't think it speaks at all to our own ideas about war.
I agree with cl's four points.
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