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From your reading of 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' how appropriate is the musical reference in the title? Louis de Bernieres' 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' explores a multitude of different themes such as conflict, love, history and morals. Music is a universal form of entertainment, expression and catharsis, and de Bernieres incorporates it and its qualities into his novel in an extremely subtle yet hugely complex way. Music has always, in the history of literature, been a device that allows authors to explore themes of love and passion, as William Shakespeare wrote, "If music be the food of love, play on". It has also proved to be a prominent use of expression in all forms of conflict and war, when Chile was governed by a military dictatorship (1973-1990) Patricia Vertugo, a journalist, spoke to a group of Chilean physicists and said "What is happening can be measured in music. The only way we have...

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