Freedom or Death (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1889
- Setting: Meghalo Kastro, Crete
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Nineteenth century, War, Soldiers, Greece or Greek people, Turkey or Turkish people, Greco-Turkish wars
- Locales: Crete
Characters Discussed
Captain Michales (meh-KAH-lehs), a Cretan patriot who dies fighting the Turks. Nothing matters to him except liberation of the island. When everyone else abandons the battlefield, he alone fights on, not listening to his wife, daughter, or elders. He is subject to drinking fits during which he commits atrocities against Turkish civilians. In the last moments of his life, raising aloft the severed head of his nephew Kosmas, he roars, “Freedom or—,” but a bullet pierces his brain before he can finish the slogan.
Nuri Bey (BAY), the childhood...
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