Literature and History: A Dynamic Relationship

• Presuppositions


  Illustrates the equal importance of history and literature
• The Three Musketeers

  • By Alexander Dumas
  • About Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, including D'Artagnan, Cardinal Richeliue
  • The whole novel tells the internal conflict within France, amidst its conflict with the Protestant England
• Real people the characters were based on

  • Armand D'Athos
  • Isaac De Porthua
  • Henri D'Aramitz
  • Count Charles Ogier De Batz De Castlemore
  • Cardinal Armand Jean Du Plessis, Duke Of Richeliue
• A Tale of Two Cities

  • By Charles Dickens
  • Novel revolved around London and Paris during the French Revolution
  • Overthrowing aristocracy and on the gruesome atrocities during the Reign of Terror was so close to what really transpired
• Song of Fransico Baltazar


  • In the book of Florante and Laura
  • The pain and desolation felt by Florante for his "Bayan Kong Sawi"
• Alamat Ni Bernardo Carpio


  • Imprisonment of Bernardo
  • Accused of a crime he did not know he committed, depicted the abuse experienced in the hands of the Spaniards
• Indarapatra at Sulayman


  • The prowess of Indarapatra at Sulayman in slaying the beast shows the typical chivalry of the natives even in the midst of an impossible adversary
• Dasalan at Tocsohan of Marcelo Del Pilar


  • Helped awaken people from the duality of the friars
• Cabin of Harriet Beecher Stowe


  • Uncle Tom
• The Count of Monte Cristo

  • Alexander Dumas