Iannis - Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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- Created on: 30-05-16 16:00
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- Iannis
- Relevance to plot
- narrator - highlights his opinions and views
- presents key values - De Bernieres shows belief in Iannis's values through the way in which characters end up
- Social and familial position
- highly intellectual - higher than others on the island
- shows lack of education
- "I am not qualified. I am not a proper surgeon" p409
- shows lack of education
- Respected by Pelagia - does not abuse his position of father
- "You're lucky to have a father like that" (Drosoula to Pelagia) p167
- "That is why I am talking to you as one person to another" and why " i am not striding up and down shouting at you and forbidding everything, as a father should" p347
- "Do not let anything I have said diminish you. I was young once" p348
- highly intellectual - higher than others on the island
- appearance and physicality
- relationships
- Pelagia
- Filial Love
- "I have never been so prodigiously proud" p167
- "She ran up the hill to be with her father, following the ancient instinct that decrees that those who love each other must be united when they die."p 187
- Filial Love
- Island/islanders
- He helps everyone on island with any illness
- God
- "A village needs a priest, as an island needs the sea" p48
- explains why he doesn't go to church - "Empedocles said that God is a circle whoe centre is everywhere and whose circumference is no where. " p63
- "You shoudln't trust to God for anything" p65
- Pelagia
- function within novel
- potrays a modern view on women
- Themes associated
- Equality (intellectual, love etc)
- Does not just believe in marriage for money - "I warn you, I'm not giving away a dowry" p65
- "No one is going to marry my daughter just for the expectation of wealth" p65
- "He isn't your equal, and he would expect to be better than his wife" p103
- "You must act honourably with respect to Mandras." p347
- Does not just believe in marriage for money - "I warn you, I'm not giving away a dowry" p65
- Love people, not ideas - NOT idealisation
- p345 Roots
- "We whould care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other." p 62
- Not idealising - loving the person not body
- "Don't give into him t all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control" p347
- Equality (intellectual, love etc)
- Relevance to plot
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