THESIS: The novels Things Fall Apart, All Quiet on the Western Front, Julius Caesar, A Tale of

Two Cities, and Night are entangled in a recurring theme of the quest for love, which ultimately
leads to a characters demise.

ABSTRACT: My play will cover how characters constant searches for love lead to their
demises, and I will do so by creating one character per novel (6) and each will argue an aspect
of a novel characters search for love. For my counterclaims, I will have two characters argue
different parts of the book to be the example of the demise (Nwoye/Okonkwo, Dr. Rank/the
children). The characters that will mentioned of struggling with love and utterly destroying
themselves are Paul, Elie, Portia, Sydney Carton, Nwoye (counterclaim: Okonkwo), and Dr.
Rank (counterclaim: the children). Each character finds a tragic end (or in the case of Dr. Rank
& the children, their ends are foreshadowed as of Act 2, and this fate can be traced back to
failure to receive or feel loved. This theme runs throughout each book in variant forms, but it is
nonetheless an entanglement. I may also counterclaim that one of the characters, most likely
Portia, did not experience a downfall due to their lack of feeling loved. A character in the play
will rebut this by showing evidence that the root of Portias troubles started when her husband
did not value or love her enough to listen to her.

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