The Plumed Serpent (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Religion, Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Mexico or Mexicans, Reincarnation, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: Mexico City, Mexico, Jalisco, Mexico
Characters Discussed
Don Ramón Carrasco (rah- MOHN kah-RRAHS-koh), a landowner and scholar who is convinced that only the revival of primitive religion can save Mexico. He establishes at his hacienda a meeting place for cultists who worship Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent. He is denounced by the church and is seriously wounded when his political and religious enemies attack him. Finally, having desecrated the church at Sayula by burning the holy images, he converts it into a sanctuary of the ancient Aztec gods.
Kate Leslie, the widow of an Irish patriot. Because she is...
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D. H. Lawrence (Cyclopedia of World Authors)D. H. Lawrence (Poetry)D. H. Lawrence (Short Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Long Fiction)D. H. Lawrence (Dictionary of World Biography)D. H. Lawrence (Censorship)
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