Shows how de Berniéres uses myth in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".
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Have a little read: ... Sunday, 13 October 2002 Jad Salfiti A2 English Literature Shows how de Berniéres uses myth in "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" takes place on a small Greek island called Cephallonia, that is still, in the years before World War II, touched with all the magic of a Greek legend, and immersed with a light that is "as though straight from the imagination of God in His youngest days, when He still believed that all was good". Dr. Iannis lives with his daughter, Pelagia. Dr. Iannis' wife and Pelagia's mother died at an early age, leaving Pelagia with a somewhat unconventional upbringing. Iannis is a self taught man who has never lost his desire for learning. Dr. Iannis is described as "odd on account of his compulsion to heal" this is similar to the Greek hero, Aristaeus, who learned in the arts of medicine and soothsaying, Aristaeus wandered through many lands teaching his
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