Keywords
literary character
the motif of war
gentry’s culture
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Abstract
The article considers the presence of the chivalric code in Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy. The author draws on the examination of military and battle vocabulary from the three famous novels, and – referring to ancient and medieval epic chivalry – shows different ways of representing the war in each part of the Trilogy. The main characters are analyzed in the context of the European ethos of warrior, and – as the author argues – can be treated as paragons of chivalry. The particular attention is paid to the eponymous protagonist of the Trilogy’s last part (Pan Wołodyjowski), who is a hero of a bit different kind: initially, he is not a paragon of virtue, and Sienkiewicz shows the process of his gradual maturity as well as his numerous faults, which endears him to the readers.
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