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The Fourth Essay

As Sombras de D. João II
As Sombras de Dom João II

I submitted the second essay of the second course the day before yesterday.

The challenge was to take the cover of this juicy historical thriller and try and analyse what currents of cultural understanding the writer was drawing on in his presentation of the novel.

It wasn’t a subject I felt very drawn to, I would rather have done the Randy Nun, but I managed OK. Well, I had some good ideas anyway. To be honest if I hasn’t been so tired I might have spent half an hour switching up the order of the lines in some of the paragraphs to make the argument flow better, but I think it’ll do OK.