The English Patient: Caravaggio
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In Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient, Caravaggio remains an enigmatic character who greatly influences each of the other characters as well as their complex inter-relationships. His role as a Canadian-Italian thief has ultimately engulfed his life by lies: "He [has] lived through a ti ....
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.... and analysis of Hana and Almasy.
The loss of the dearest people to Hana has triggered her yearnings for someone who would love her and take care of her. Hana's father has died of burning during the war and consequently, she connects her father's death to the suffering of the English patient: "She [has] come across the English patient - some one who looked like a burned animal, taut and dark, a pool for her" (41). Hana decides to stay with the English patient after the war because she doe ....
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