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Pasternak's Zhivago includes all of these elements
Symbolism, mysticism, religion, coincidental conjunction
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Which epics does Doctor Zhivago echo
Homer's The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, and Dante's Divine Comedy
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How is Yuri compared to Homer's Odyssey
Yuri wanders back and forth across Russia
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What is Yuri's intersts in Kubarikha compared to(the witch who casts spells on cows)
Odysseus' enchantment by teh witch Circe
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What is Yuriss struggle to escape the Bolsheviks to
Odysseus' inability to escape Scylla and Charybdis
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Which characters in Doctor Zhivago can be compared to Greek gods who help or impede Odysseus
Evgraf and Samdeviatov
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How does Yuri's uncle Nikolai reflect on Rome
By criticizing their tyranical rule, a reference to Stalin whose face was marked by pocketmarks.... in Nikolai's criticizing he talks of "pocketmarked Caligulas"
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What is the story of Virgil's Aeneas
The story of the founding of the Roman Empire: Aenas escapes Troy after the Greeks destroy it; he travels through the underworld to reconfrim his destiny
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What is Aenas journy to the underworld a symbol of in Zhivago
Yuri's escape from teh partisian camp (underworld)
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What connects Doctor Zhivago to Dante
References to Christianity and teh meaning of life and death
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What is Lara a reminder of from Dante's Comedy
Dante's Beatrice = Yuri's Lara
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What are the three stages of Dante's inferno? Which one is Yuri stuck in
- Inferno, Purgatorio, adn Paradiso
- Yuri is in Inferno (after math of the civil war)
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What is the pov of Doctor Zhivago
3rd person Omniscent
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What is prolepsis
Advancing the narrative into the future
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What is ironic about "The Five O'Clock Express"
It is the express of the train, but the train in the chapter is actually staionary
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How many of the chapters are tains, trams, railways, and railtracks mentioned in
10 of the 16
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Trains normally suggest motion and speed; in the novel they frequently stop or don't run at all.... this shows
The speed of progression is slowing
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What is the symbolism of the trains
Often associated with the movement of troops to and from the front and the movement of citizens fleeing civil war, come to represent the dysfunctinal government, forcing people into a communist, totalitarian society
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