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        <title><![CDATA[I guess I think of Dunstan's mother as a primarily negative influence on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I guess I think of Dunstan's mother as a primarily negative influence on his "search for meaning."  Mrs. Ramsay was so competent at everything, and so dominant in her family's life (and the people around her -- witness her influence on Mrs. Dempster) that Dunstan identified a close relationship with any (sane or living) woman as threatening.  After Dunstan had his epic fight with his mother as a teenager he never saw her the same...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What impact does Dunstan's mother make, in her role as a woman, in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/fifth-business/q-and-a/what-impact-does-dunstans-mother-make-her-role-123447</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What impact does Dunstan's mother make, in her role as a woman, in Dunstan's life as he searches for meaning?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:45:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dunny does some serious growing and changing in the novel, but he also...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dunny does some serious growing and changing in the novel, but he also realizes his limitations.  One way in which he does not grow is in his relationship with Boy Staunton.  He always had a long-simmering contempt for him, and kept important facts about Boy's own life from him (like the fact that he still had the rock that hurt Mrs. Dempster, and that he had supported her in mental institutions for years, and at one time Boy's first wife...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:58:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Dunstan Ramsay grow individually throughout the novel Fifth...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Dunstan Ramsay grow individually throughout the novel Fifth Business?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:07:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are several different ways of looking at this question, and in the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/fifth-business/q-and-a/quote-he-boy-was-killed-by-usual-cabal-by-himself-81093</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are several different ways of looking at this question, and in the third book of the series (World of Wonders) Leisl explains some of the reasons she used that phrase.  This was spoken by the "brazen head" (which was Leisl's distorted voice from backstage) in Eisengrim's show after Boy Staunton was found dead, to a theatre audience.  The person who shouted out the question "Who killed Boy Staunton?" was the dead man's son, David, who...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:07:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dunstan can be seen to act as "fifth business" to Diana Marfleet, but I...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dunstan can be seen to act as "fifth business" to Diana Marfleet, but I don't think that's a really useful way of thinking about it.  If you do use that template, Dunstan is the "fifth" to her because he was engaged to her but didn't marry her.  They had a happy engagement and a fulfilling sexual relationship when Dunstan was in England recuperating from his injuries in the war, but ultimately Dunstan decided not to marry her.
Dunstan chose...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:24:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Dunstan act as a Fifth Business towards Diana Marfleet?  And...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Dunstan act as a Fifth Business towards Diana Marfleet?  And how does she DEVELOP Dunstan's character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:40:45 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Dunstan act as a Fifth Business towards Diana Marfleet?  And...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Dunstan act as a Fifth Business towards Diana Marfleet?  And how does she DEVELOP Dunstan's character?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:21:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since you understand what "fifth business" is, think of how it applies...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since you understand what "fifth business" is, think of how it applies to Dunstan.  In what ways was he "someone who is neither a hero nor a villain", and how is he on the "sidelines" of life?
There is more than one way to think about Dunstan as "fifth business", I believe, but let's try this one.  If the other "four" actors in the plot are Boy Staunton, Leola Cruikshank, Leisl, and Paul Dempster (Eisengrim), how is he neither a hero nor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:51:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Davies (author) use the idea of 'FIFTH BUSINESS' to develop the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Davies (author) use the idea of 'FIFTH BUSINESS' to develop the character of Dunstan Ramsay?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:16:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I want to answer this question from a very personal point of view....]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/fifth-business/q-and-a/boy-and-dunstan-characters-who-have-been-twice-109687</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I want to answer this question from a very personal point of view. Robertson Davies was my professor in the University of Toronto in 1969-70, the year The Fifth Business was published. In those days, while discussing with him my doctoral dissertation on the first English actress on the London stage, Moll Flanders in the 1660s, I heard him speak constantly about his impending novel. Yes, we did speak to him about Boy and Dunstan as the "two...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:53:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Boy and Dunstan are characters who have been twice-born. Compare and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Boy and Dunstan are characters who have been twice-born. Compare and contrast these characters, and how they transform their identities.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:08:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Characters who are foils of each other are usually similar in some ways,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Characters who are foils of each other are usually similar in some ways, but not in others.  The importance is in the contrast between them, which should serve to illuminate something in one or both of the characters, or possibly in the overall plot.  Mary Dempster was, in many ways, the converse of Mrs. Ramsay.  In everything that Mrs. Ramsay was competent (such as housekeeping, running a family, having a good reputation in town and in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:25:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Vision of Dr. Faustus is a play on the old legend of a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Vision of Dr. Faustus is a play on the old legend of a German alchemist who found a way to conjure up the devil.  Upon meeting Satan, Faustus makes a pact with him.  For a life of earthly pleasures Faust will sell his soul.  The story of Dr. Faust has thus come to mean a scientific or magical man selling his soul for a life of decadence and pleasure. 
You could consider Dunstan's peculiarly Canadian, Scottish puritanism, which...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 22:14:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Analyze "The vision of Dr Faustus", and explain the significance in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/fifth-business/q-and-a/after-analysing-vision-dr-faustus-eisengrims-105953</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Analyze "The vision of Dr Faustus", and explain the significance in terms of Dunstan's own experience with human sexuality.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:50:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How are Mary Dempster and Dunstan's mother foils of each other?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How are Mary Dempster and Dunstan's mother foils of each other?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:24:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That's an interesting question, bringing up the idea of what "valuable"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That's an interesting question, bringing up the idea of what "valuable" means.  Certainly to the reader Dunstan (formerly Dunstable) Ramsay's life seems more valuable simply because he is more self-aware than Boy Staunton.  Boy Staunton (who started out as Percy Boyd Staunton) never pays for his part in what happened to Mrs. Dempster, and this, at least from the reader's perspective, colors his whole life.  Because he was brought up in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:52:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How Is superstitions regarding fate/chance illustrated in the novel...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How Is superstitions regarding fate/chance illustrated in the novel Fifth Business by Robertson Davies?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:36:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I was wondering what some examples of proving Dunstans main quest which...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was wondering what some examples of proving Dunstans main quest which is individuation, finding himself?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 18:05:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why was Dunstan Ramsey's life more valuable than Percys?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why was Dunstan Ramsey's life more valuable than Percys?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 10:50:52 PST</pubDate>
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