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From: Reavely 11/1/99
Date: 11/1/99
Time: 12:47:26 PM
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The issue of poverty is one of the more important underlying themes that are present in this novel. There is no question that there are two vastly different interpretations of this particulair component, the question that I have is how can both interpretations arrive from the same source? It is not as if the two are slightly askew from each other, they are on the opposite sides of the spectrum. The way that this argument is represented in the novel makes it impossible to ascertain a legitimate answer, it is clear that this is a perfect example of the manipulation of something that is ambiguos and not concrete(The Bible being an excellent example) by a group in order to further their own intereasts or beliefs. Although this isen't an insight that Eco himself observed, it's a pattern that has existed since the first disagreement, yet the use of the Church is very clever and appropiate. As in other works, people have manipulated others to arrive at their desired ends. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", for example, Gawain was manipulated by the Knight to pass a test that satisfied his own wants, without reguard to the person he was doing it to. HOw this can be attributed to the presents can be easily answeres, watch court T.V.