A comparison of character relationships in "Memed, My Hawk" and "The Leopard."
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:49:34
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1299 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 5 pages (1299 words)
Book: "Memed, My Hawk" and "The Leopard"
Author: Yashar Kemal (Memed, My Hawk) and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (The Leopard)
Text:
The novels, "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and "Memed, My Hawk" by Yashar Kemal, both involve back stories of power changes, that is changes to the class systems. Yet each novel is told from a different point of view - The Leopard from that of the displaced upper-class aristocracy in southern Italy …
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…eacute; have absolutely no chance to be together, and their marriage depends wholly on their resistance to the realities of the world. Angelica and Tancredi have no love bond between them resulting in an unsuccessful, pragmatic marriage, the former relationship is supremely tragic because Hatché dies and she and Memed cannot be together. The latter relationship is tragic for exactly the opposite reason, precisely because Angelica and Tancredi will spend their lives together.
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