In five pages the moral problems, metaphors and themes the protagonists of Louis De Berniere's Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Primo Levi's If Not Now, When? are compared and contrasted. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body.... Love itself is what is left over when
being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident." ~ from Corellis Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres Captain Corellis Mandolin
is the acclaimed novel by Louis de Berniere and features the story of Antonio Corelli, an apathetic, opera-loving, mandolin-playing captain in Mussolinis Army. Stationed on the Greek Island of Cephallonia,
Corelli meets and falls in love with Pelagia, the daughter of the islands doctor. However, it is World War II, and a small version of the war begins to wage
on the island in the form of a love triangle between Pelagia, Coreli, and Pelagias old beau, Mandras, home from the war. The moral dilemma then becomes one of
begin torn between duty to a war that he does not believe in, his love for a woman who may or may not be in love with him, and his
protective feelings for the island and its people. All are threatened by his presence on the island. Though the book features his name in the title, Captain Corelli does not
make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his mandolin will form the climax and be the
driving element for the central themes of the book. Those themes are universal and include the transience of beauty, the nobility of those who are oppressed, the futility of war,
the power of love to redeem and heal. Another dilemma faced by the people on the island is that of lost faith. At one