Disenchantment · Character
Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, the writer, referenced as a contemporary figure.
minor
Also known as the wittier Kipling, Bret Harte
First appearance: iv
Kipling's tie to Unknown Narrator is one of the pressures that moves Disenchantment—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
Quoted for his poem about the trained soldier, used as a metaphor for the advantage of habitually untruthful journalists over honest ones in wartime propaganda.
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With Unknown Narrator (social): Kipling is a contemporary literary figure who interacts with the narrator as a peer or acquaintance. In VIII: The Duty of Lying: Quoted for his poem about the trained soldier, used as a…
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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