| Frame
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| • | Epistolary
narrative provides |
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| verisimilitude |
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| • | Prepares
us for central narrative’s |
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| themes
through parallel situations and |
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| characters |
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| – | Dangerous
quest for “forbidden |
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| knowledge”
by ambitious individualist |
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| • | Setting
foreshadows quest’s outcome |
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