Extended Essays 2021

Rejecting Thy Neighbor: An Analysis of Dumas’ and Lynch’s use of Christianity in Influencing the Reader to feel Pleasure and Justification in Acts of Violence

To what extent do Dumas in The Count of Monte Cristo and Lynch in The Lies of Locke Lamora use Judeo-Christian tropes to establish their protagonists as God-like, thus justifying

their vengeful and violent actions to the reader? English A1 Language and Literature Category 1 Session Number: 001161-0012 Word Count: 3902 By: Felix JACKSON-KENNEDY

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