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... creation , though he distinguished between mere characters and " living people " in literature : " People in a novel ... creations of Hamlet , Don Quixote , and Milton's Satan were , in part , the products of such " luck . " And he may ...
... creation , though he distinguished between mere characters and " living people " in literature : " People in a novel ... creations of Hamlet , Don Quixote , and Milton's Satan were , in part , the products of such " luck . " And he may ...
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... creation than in commentary , and the goal he set for himself was a high one . He wished to create in the confidence man's final masquerade as Frank Goodman a character who would rival the most original creations of Milton , Shake ...
... creation than in commentary , and the goal he set for himself was a high one . He wished to create in the confidence man's final masquerade as Frank Goodman a character who would rival the most original creations of Milton , Shake ...
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... creation of out- right villains such as Jackson , Bland , and Claggart and in the creation of his famous rebel , Ahab . Melville's use of Satan in creating these first three characters , suggests Pommer , may have stemmed from a ...
... creation of out- right villains such as Jackson , Bland , and Claggart and in the creation of his famous rebel , Ahab . Melville's use of Satan in creating these first three characters , suggests Pommer , may have stemmed from a ...
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