The Enormous Room · Character
The Fencer
A prisoner skilled in fencing.
minor
Also known as The Fencer
First appearance: iv le nouveau
The Fencer shows up with force in III: A Pilgrim's Progress. The page is where that presence becomes real.
The fencer is the guard who escorts the narrator to the dark room and instructs him to sleep by a post.
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In III: A Pilgrim's Progress: The fencer is the guard who escorts the narrator to the dark room and instructs him to sleep by a post. Later, in XI: Jean le Nègre: Proclaims the end of an earlier incident, allowing…
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Character groups
- Quirky Individual Prisoners
- Protagonist
- Central Camp Characters
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the narrator directly confronts the paradox of his own freedo…
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