Lord Mountdrago (Somerset M.)
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LORD MOUNTDRAGO written by William Somerset Maugham

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Table of contents Who is William Somerset Maugham? Title Characters Setting Themes Plot Appreciation

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Who is William Somerset Maugham? British victorian writer Writes on professional and middle-class lives Most popular writer 1930 25 January 1874-16 December 1965

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Titel: Lord Mountdrago Mountdrago = oldest family in England Powerful family

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Characters: Lord Mountdrago 42 years old Foreign minister Higher class

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Characters: Doctor Odlin Psycho analyst Stops pain by touching Talking to people who suffer from sleeplessness = cause them to sleep

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Characters: Ower Griffiths Lower class Welsh member of parliament

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Setting London – United Kingdom Wimpole street

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Themes Sleeplessness Dreams The difference between lower and higher class

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Plot Mountdrago dreams every night about Griffiths Bad dream= affects his life Doctor Audline tries to help Mountdrago Griffiths has the same dreams Mountdrago has humiliated Griffiths in front of everyone Mountdrago would not feel sorry Killed himself and Griffiths to stay in peace.

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Stylistic devices Anaphora He was surprised that his patient was late, for Lord Mountdrago prided himself on his punctuality; he had a sententious way of expressing himself which gave the air of an epigram to a commonplace remark, and he was in the habit of saying that punctuality is a compliment you pay to the intelligent and a rebuke you administer to the stupid.

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His clothes were dark. His tie was black. His dress made his sallow lined face paler, and his pale eyes more wan.

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Metaphora “ ..l ike a man finding a place for himself on a crowded bench, and slumber fell on their tired eyelids like the light rain of spring upon the fresh-turned earth. ”

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Hyperbole “… a dozen times he had been on the point of giving up practice. ”

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Rhetorical question “ Did their authors really think the men and women they wrote of were like that? ”

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Thus the moral of the story doing good things is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.