QUESTIONS:
- What do we know about the origins of the protagonist? What is his name and what does his name suggest?
- What about the first bosses? How does his life change?
- Thomas meets a captain, and his life changes course again. How? What does the narrative tell us from the outset about the difference between what the captain tells and the reality of life as a soldier?
- What happens to Thomas in Italy?
- Thomas returns to Salamanca to finish his studies. But what happens there? What is the effect of the spell?
- Thomas’s friends try to help him, but in the end they let him “go free”. What happens to Thomas then? How does he speak, what things does he say?
- Towards the end of the novel, a religious cures Thomas of his madness. What happens to Thomas now (notice the name change) in court?
- What does Thomas say about the Court? Where does he go in the end? (theme of weapons and letters)
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