The Wife of Martin Guerre
Short answer questions
Rohan Liston
CHAPTER ONE: Artigues
1)<Tab/>Much of the first page is taken up with descriptions of the country. What does it communicate?
Descriptions of the land and country in which the characters live sets the scene and the time period of the story. On the first page, we are given images of isolation due to the heavy winter that "buried [the land] under whiteness". This gives us a view into the feudalist lifestyles of the peasants in the mountains, and the "leisure" they enjoyed despite their hard work.
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