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joemie
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How is historical romance being portrayed in The Crisis?
Who are the characters involved in the question aboved and what the things they did?
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akannan Teacher
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Posted by akannan on Saturday September 5, 2009 at 6:06 AMThe historical background feeds the Romance between Virginia and Stephen. Both cling to powerful sets of values, the faith in the Southern approach to life and the Northern cause of freedom. Both take these pre war values and must absorb them through the horrors of war, where death, cruelty, and barbarism test any and all intellectual maxims and beliefs. Yet, the romance between both of them is forged by the commitment to their ideals and the self sacrifice both of them embody. Viriginia realizes that she is in love with Stephen when he risks everything to be by the Judge's side as he is dying. The level of commitment he holds to his ideas help her fall in love with him as a noble figure. When both realize that both have made the same plea for mercy for Clarence Colfax at the hands of Lincoln, there is a simultaneous bond that is formed where both realize that the love of ideals and the passion for justice can fuel the love between two people.
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