Le Pére Goriot Situation Initiale

second introduced Rainouart, a giant, whose buffoonery contrasts violently with its noble, other-worldly idealism. La Prise d’Orange, a continuation of Guillaume’s adventures, introduces melodrama and even more robust comic elements to which the initial sense of mission is made subservient. By the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Christian purpose had already been overlaid by elements of folk tale and legend. The Pèlerinage de Charlemagne to Jerusalem is strong not on the Christian marvellous

his parents hoped a more northerly climate would help his ailing lungs, and he was sent to live with a cousin and study for a year at Aligarh Muslim University, in Uttar Pradesh, near Delhi. Thus from very early in his life Rao was placed in a situation that isolated him culturally and emphasized his difference from others, a pattern that was to be important in his later career. Back in Hyderabad he earned his BA at Nizam’s College, where his father taught, studying history and English, and won