A History of the World in 10½

Chapters

The Wars of Religion

by Julian Barnes

Kristiyan Nachev & Daniel Lichev 12ж class

 Setting
 A court house in France

 The church
 Plot
 The trial of the woodworms, damaging the
church
 Conflict

 The woodworms vs. the people and

the state.
 Characters
 Lawyer for the people

 Lawyer for the woodworms

 The woodworms

 The inhabitants of Mamirolle

 The judge
 Point of view (POV)
 The lawyers
 The judge
 Themes
 The importance of religion (mainly
Catholicism)

 Good vs. Evil

 Motifs
 The woodworms

 The bible
 Symbols
 Intertextuality – the bible

 Metafiction – the use of the lawyers

 Paranoia – the use of the bible to explain why the

woodworms do what they do

 Faction – in a time where animal trials were

allowed to take place
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