And obviously for blackmail control over the politician puppets, pedophilia, cannibalism and murder are often caught on film. Mossad used convicted child sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his Sex Slave Island to get the dirt on scores of powerful scum still in power in Washington. This presentation has encapsulated that long horrifying history that has led to this current epidemic. But we are finally turning the corner now on this despicable human blight, and the momentum is swinging towards growing public awareness and outrage, pushing for accountability and justice for our children.
The next section documents one eyewitness who was exposed to this satanic pedophile empire, had the conscience and courage to talk about it, and then just recently paid for it with his life. His work included interfacing with central banks, national governments, various deep state players like the CIA and Mossad, transnational oil corporations and US-Israeli-Saudi backed terrorist organizations, all the while maintaining as low a profile as possible to avoid detection.
As a money handler employed in illicit global smuggling operations involving drugs, weapons and global child sex trafficking, up close and personal Bernard encountered the Luciferian world of the globalist crime cabal, at the heart of the US war making Empire machine, witnessing child pedophilia and children being ritualistically sacrificed. Bernard explained how his blind ambition and lust for money led him on a path toward becoming a psychopath, but when he saw little kids being raped, tortured and murdered, his long buried conscience quickly shot to the surface.
He astoundingly realized how the Luciferian worshippers all around him at the top of the predatory food chain detested human beings and in fact life itself.
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It sickened Ronald to see how his peers had literally sold their soul to the devil in exchange for all the riches, decadent luxury and sexual depravities big money and power buy. After refusing to play the game any longer, and enduring torture on multiple levels, he underwent a protracted period of living hell, experiencing a total breakdown of both his mental and physical health, ending up in a hospital ICU. An out of body experience and cathartic spiritual transformation granted him the courage as an Illuminati whistleblower to speak out, revealing his riveting, harrowing story.
His account fully exposes the demonic barbarity of the soulless beast that is the hidden satanic cult currently running this world. Sadly, after moving to the United States and marrying an American, in late August Illuminati whistleblower Ronald Bernard was found dead after taking a walk in a rural area of Sebring, Florida. He called authorities stating he was lost and his life was in danger.
Several hours later his body was discovered face down in shallow water. The films obviously left an indelible imprint that would never be forgotten. It seems like a very real glimpse into the dark world of Illuminati Satanists caught on film in action, cutting the throats of two toddlers, draining their blood, and then two cooks on camera instructing how to prepare and cook human flesh for dinner guests wearing masks that cover their eyes.
The next scene is at the dining table with assembled guests and host couple. The host has recently hired a young man for an executive position in his company, and he and his wife are the special guests. The new employee and his wife are nervous but the ten other diners at the table remain jovial. The young man and his wife convulse with shock and the husband vomits. The second film is even more disturbing. A young homeless pregnant woman has been taken in by the Illuminati under the pretense of receiving support from a social charity service.
The film features the same host who has invited the young mother to dine with the same satanic friends including the young couple from the last film. Though the film ends there, the young mother was murdered shortly afterwards. The reason the two murder scenes were made available for the writer to view is the Illuminati member tasked with making the films showed it to him. Though the filmmaker was a Satanist himself, he had become upset with the child sacrifices and was trying to get the leadership within the Illuminati committee to be purged.
We must stop the slaughter of our children! Soft and Hard Kill Methods. Leese, Jewish Ritual Murder London: Christ, Solomon, or Baal? Has it really to do with the Illuminati? A Special Report on the Washington, D. Instead of using the official language of the western Catholic branch which was always Latin, the new Eastern Roman Empire that included most of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor and the eastern Mediterranean in the Middle East adopted as its official language Greek, and marked the birth of the enduring Byzantine Empire.
Thus the course of world history was taking a major turn.
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Once the Holy Land was taken, expansionist Muslim Arabs pushed westward by sea and by land, even threatening conquest of Constantinople as well. Ultimately after launching two failed sieges on the Byzantine capital ending in AD, a period of relative calm and truce prevailed in the region…[5] that is until the Macedonian Dynasty between and AD when Byzantine Christian forces rose up to retake northern Syria and Greater Armenia,[6] the first nation to declare Christianity its state religion back in AD. Surviving in an ultra-violent world where aristocratic lords and kings imposed death feuds and wars on their feudal subjects, constantly clashing with other clans and kingdoms, day-to-day life in the post-Dark Age was hardly giving way to any better life in the Middle Ages.
The peasant class was born and died owned as feudal subjects, human commodities completely controlled by nobility in an enslavement system that was both violent and inhumane. In medieval Europe the growing economic disparity between peasant Christian masses as landless serfs and the uneasy, contentious partnership of aristocratic nobility and entrenched Roman Catholic hierarchy planted seeds of unrest and upheaval amidst so much despair and abject poverty. Seething tension and conflict had been brewing for centuries within the psyche of the peasant masses, activated especially when a series of droughts struck Europe in the late 11th century.
In Western Europe this was the dire setting both culturally and economically on the eve of the 12th century. And that was all the unhappy, strife-ridden, angry, desperate, bigoted Christians needed to hear. Meanwhile, the Eastern Roman Empire was slowly losing ground to the recent Muslim converts, the nomadic Seljuk Turks that had migrated from the steppes of Central Asia. Though the official fall of the Byzantine Empire would be held off until the mighty fortress walls of New Rome came tumbling down in by Ottoman Turks,[19] four and a half centuries earlier in , the Eastern Roman Empire found itself being hit from all sides by multiple enemies, both Muslim and Christian alike.
Blaming the true villain — members of the church and state ruling class was a dicey proposition, certain to result in either instant imprisonment or death punished to an afterlife of eternal hell and damnation. Just like clockwork, they fall prey to deception every single time. And so thousands upon thousands of Christians became Crusaders marching to the Holy Land to liberate it from the designated enemy. As they moved through the Eastern Roman Empire closer to the Middle East, whenever the marauding Christians encountered Jews or Muslims along the way, they simply killed them and stole what they could.
As dire as it was for Byzantium prior to the First Crusade, afterwards it was left in even worse shape. The warlike Turks were still on the warpath grabbing more turf, but even the important Byzantine port city Antioch wound up in the greedy hands of a Norman invader that betrayed his oath not to steal Eastern Roman Empire land from fellow Christians. And to top it off, it was the Norman son in Antioch of the land-grabbing Norman father in Italy both laying claim to Byzantine territory not theirs… so much for the concept of Christian brotherhood.
Jerusalem was stormed in July The rabid ferocity of its sack showed just how little the Church had succeeded in Christianizing atavistic instincts. The entire population of the Holy City was put to the sword, Jews as well as Moslems, 70, men, women and children perished in a holocaust, which raged for three days. In places men waded in blood up to their ankles and horsemen were splashed by it as they rode through the streets.
The first Christian military Order of the Knights of Hospitallers, later known as the Knights of Malta, were already established and pope endorsed in for that very same purpose. The King of Jerusalem granted their authorization to literally set up camp on top of the ancient King Solomon temple ruins. Their new Order had the knights religiously poking around for any recoverable relics, artifacts and otherwise magic bullets that would bestow upon them an added advantage in their quest for power and supremacy that also happened to include a war not only on Islam but Christianity as well.
But that incredibly significant reality will be addressed shortly. Speculation still abounds over whether the Templar Knights might have discovered the famous Ark of Covenant or Holy Grail that may well have been hidden in a secret cavern below the excavated Solomon Temple. Scholars have concluded that the Templar Knights pursued secret knowledge contained in the mystical Jewish traditions of the Cabala and as such, actively sought out Cabalists for consultation in both Jerusalem and Europe.
A revealing passage from the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail: According to this bull the Templars would owe allegiance to no secular or ecclesiastical power other than the Pope himself. In other words, they were rendered totally independent of all kings, princes, and prelates, and of all interference from both political and religious authorities.
They had become, in effect, a law unto themselves, an autonomous international empire. Jews have survived a very long history of horrendous prejudice and persecution, countless purges and pogroms throughout the ages. During the Dark Ages of the 5th-7th centuries, for nefarious, subversive reasons, crypto-Jews from the Merovingian bloodline chose to convert to Christianity in order to infiltrate and marry into European royalty to reach top positions of power in both church and state.
It was the crypto-Jews who masterminded and financed both the Crusades and later the Renaissance. The ambitious Pope Urban II who ignited the years of Crusade atrocities was the sixth French crypto-Jewish pope from this same Merovingian lineage. Muslim unholy wars, the Templar Knights and their sponsors were strategically positioned to implement Protocol 7: Therein we gain a double advantage.
And regardless of whether Satanists are crypto-Jews, Jews, or non-Jews, or whatever subgroup they might fall into, Satanists have made it their enduring age-old agenda to divide and destroy all religions in their larger war against humanity. With utter contempt and hatred, they loathe our Creator, all life, love, peace and all people who are good, who possess a conscience and a heart and everything they lack. So by exposing a small evil minority of crypto-Jews and their inflammatory, devastating impact on all human history including Jews, truth can never be attacked or dismissed as pure anti-Semitism.
Regardless of religion, ethnic race or nationality, evil is as evil does. Instead as Cabalist practitioners, they were always aligned far more closely with occult black magic,[46] all the while secretly worshipping their fallen angel Lucifer. Zionist crypto-Jews having converted to the Synagogue of Satan, made a secret deal with a few other Satanists like Prescott Bush, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers and the international bankers as the usual suspects,[52] investing in Hitler and World War II, justifying the loss of 60 million lives for a Jewish State using as their bargaining chip the sacrificial lambs exterminated in concentration camps — the non-Zionist Jews.
O — ethnically cleansing Palestinians to make room for the Greater Israel Project. Israel has little to do with the Jewish people. Zionism, Communism, Feminism, Nazism, are all creations of the same satanic cabal. Queen Elizabeth,[58] Prince Philip and Prince Charles are full fledge Illuminati Satan worshippers who indisputably protected longtime fellow Satanist, the child murdering rapist Jimmy Savile who for over a half century supplied children to the royals and UK VIP rapists.
So they assassinated her knowing as royals they are both legally and literally able to live completely above the law. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were the last known witnesses to see ten Native American children alive who disappeared while attending their Catholic school picnic outing with the royal couple back in British Columbia. This all sounds unbelievable until you look at the astounding numbers of children gone missing worldwide each year — 8 million and growing by the year.
A reported , missing children from Ireland, Spain and Canada alone have been discovered at countless Catholic mass grave sites. By maintaining top to bottom control of every agency designed to protect children by planting pedophiles at the top levels of the child welfare system, the courts, law enforcement, the media, education and the government, an insulated system of predatory foxes all guarding the young blood henhouse has been allowed to both flourish and increase its number of victims each year.
For a very long time these Satanists and their private coven, epitomized by all their overlapping multi-memberships in so many secret Satan worshipping societies — the Illuminati, Knights Templar-turned-Freemasonry, Malta Knights, Skull and Bones, CFR, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergers to Bohemian Grove have all been hidden in plain sight.
But now their global conspiracy of human genocide against us and our children is being exposed at a never before seen, unprecedented rate. By unveiling the truth, we can wrest power and control away from these murderous vampires. Otherwise the two year campaign turned out to be a complete disaster. As a murdering ruthless mob, the Christians fared better without them in the First Crusade. It seemed they were far more skilled at increasing their land holdings mostly in Europe than protecting Crusaders or Christian Holy Land. The Order consisted of nobleman knights, non-noble sergeants that did the grunt work and chaplains.
Every knight that joined the Order relinquished all his worldly possessions, quickly becoming an ongoing source of revenue. Yet despite the utter failure of the Second Crusade fiasco and the Malta and Templar Knights inability to change the dismal outcome for the Christians, whenever Templar Knights did finally get around to waging combat, so much has been written about their heroic, larger-than-life exploits. Numerous accounts describe their work ethic on the battlefield of fierce fighting to the death most often resulting in victorious conquests that overnight caused their knightly reputation to soar to legendary cult-like status.
Okay, technically one other Crusade avoided outright military rout only because no actual fighting took place. On one occasion the Assassins paid tribute or perhaps a peace offering of 3, pieces of gold to the Templars. With some of the Templars born and raised in the Middle East and fluent in Arabic, both these militias had reputations for working hard and playing harder as party animals.
Before long, success had gone to their heads, hearts and apparently their loins. Scholars contend that a minority of knights openly engaged in homosexual relations. So are the modern Illuminati black arts occult and satanic practices. It seems throughout history virtually every secret society invariably succumbs under this same intoxicatingly degenerate spell, lusting insatiably for power, pleasure and riches in exchange for worshipping Satan. The more times change, the more things stay the same.
Of course their usury scam making profit out of paper thin air was seized upon a couple centuries later by the likes of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who refined the art of swindling to new unprecedented heights,[99] establishing the modern central banking monstrosity still operating today as the bankrupt, debt-based slavery control system teetering on the brink of self-implosion. Upon hearing the shocking news of another failed Crusade that lost the crown jewel Jerusalem, the pope allegedly keeled over and died on the spot, but apparently not before declaring the Third Crusade to avenge the loss of the Holy Land.
Meanwhile, through his battlefield glory Salah Ed-Din had ascended to become the master of Syria, Palestine and Egypt ruling over a united team of Islam that the Christians were literally just dying to beat. On another not so insignificant note, to further contrast the difference between how Muslims and Christians generally treat captured enemies and their leaders he had just conquered, Salah Ed-Din kept his enemies alive, treating them humanely.
Do you see a pattern here? Time and time again the historical facts point to leaders of the Christian Western civilization that have been the violent bloodthirsty villains throughout modern history. And this sobering reality has been a constant right up to this day. The running theme of this entire chapter and book is how Illuminati Satanists have for centuries been hidden in plain sight in the ruling elite bloodlines,[] and through malevolent secret societies have infiltrated and taken control over the Catholic Church, international banking, corporate institutions and the globalized Anglo-American-Zionist crime cabal government.
But more on the Catholic takeover later. Eventually they were forced to retreat to their final port city Acre, where after coming under siege and attack in August by overwhelming Muslim forces,[] and with Europe tired of losing, the Crusades were finally brought to a shameful close. Already considered has-beens, support for the Templars was fast drying up. Forced to retreat to the island of Cyprus, weak and vulnerable,[] the majority of Templar Knights returned home to Europe with Paris their final headquarters just as the French crown moved in for the kill.
Other remaining Templar survivors and their alleged missing assets apparently found safe refuge in Scotland and in short-time began resurfacing as burgeoning Masonic lodges. Many writers, both Catholics and Masons, have always insisted that the first confession of debauchery and demonic worship attained through torture was therefore false.
Vatican archives confirm the church had been covering up priestly child rapists since the early days of the Middle Ages. Christianity in a Holy War? Is this the Sickest Man in the UK? TV, October 17, , https: The birth of the Order of St. John was in John in Jerusalem in to care for the sick among the Christians visiting and living in the Holy Land. John of Jerusalem or the Order of Hospitallers was formalized, officially recognized by the pope in and by the Knights of St. John expanded their services as the second secret military Christian order designated to defend devotees traveling from Europe during the Crusades.
The Jesuit Order founded in the 16th century covered next is also a Vatican militia that is even more secretly guarded and dangerous. Robinson in his book Born in Blood: But instability on Cyprus led to shifting their center in to another Greek island Rhodes also located in the Mediterranean Sea. For the next years the Order maintained its Malta headquarters and sovereignty over both the islands of Malta and Gozo.
The Order lost its islands yet again when in French Emperor Napoleon invaded and left the military order without a home territory. For such an allegedly fierce fighting force that subversively gained increasing political strength over the span of centuries, the Malta Knights lost considerable ground militarily over the millennium, ultimately in finally relocating to its permanent sovereign home within the city limits of Rome where it remains today. Angelo under permanent extraterritorial sovereignty, a year lease was signed in Thus on paper only the Order of Malta remains a sovereign nation, still in search of a territory.
The native populations in Rhodes and Malta where the knights occupied and ruled for centuries had absolutely no say in how their own island states were governed. But then after living under monarchial feudalism for centuries, they probably rarely even noticed… not unlike citizens of the world today also having grown complacently accustomed to living under plutocratic crime cabal enslavement.
And the sad irony is that life for Christians in Jerusalem was far better living under their so called enemy than it ever was under Christian control. Jews and Christians alike in the Middle East were treated far more humanely and tolerantly by Muslim Arabs,[13] minus the hatred, bigotry, bloodshed and lies that instigated and fueled the holy wars. Considered armed and dangerous to their very core existence, the globalists both hate and fear us, knowing we are now finally onto them in the name of truth and God, fighting to slay the demonic dragon in our midst.
That presumption is yet another lie. It is only because we allow perpetual war, conditioned to impotently and passively believe we have no say or control, that it continues unabated. Renowned journalist Seymour Hersh has asserted that SMOM draws its members from the highest levels of US deep state including the Pentagon, secret services, and counterparts in friendly allied nations. They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. And this is their function.
To be a knight one must be Catholic, have served in the military service, and the higher ranks are most definitely upper crusty, requiring proof of aristocratic family coat of arms handed down from father to son unbroken for at least years. The military order was also granted sovereign nation status with its own Constitution despite no territorial claim beyond its Rome headquarters. The Order benefits from permanent observer status at the UN, maintains diplomatic relations with countries[32] and its members enjoy diplomatic immunity,[33] thus possessing a license of impunity to live above the law.
With the recent forced resignation of a former DNC chair and the DNC today facing more criminal subterfuge charges,[41] bent on pursuing by any means available a similar mission to overthrow yet another US president. I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. Again, only the names, faces and dates change while history stays the same. Edgar Hoover was also a Knight of Malta.
And who would believe that the benevolent Holy Pope made them do it? Over many decades they have nefariously colluded and confabulated with the pope and such Malta Order European royalty luminaries as Queen Elizabeth, Dutch Queen Beatrix and their hubby princes to fast forward their collective New World Order vision. Hell, dictatorship and New World Order fit together like a hand in glove. US presidents, Knights of Malta, mind control and pedo sex rings go together. Aside from General Eisenhower, the following warmonger generals are Malta Knights: King Carlos[] is the patriarch descendant heading the Templars of Aragon claiming direct lineage to the Merovingian Illuminati bloodline.
But just to throw us off their wicked bread crumb trail, again no doubt for purposes of positive publicity, the motley Malta crew every now and then throws in a few figures considered to be good guys and international figures, like the anti-apartheid heroes Nelson Mandela,[] and Desmond Tutu.
Now to understand what all of the above planetary controllers are doing on behalf of who owns them, and what their obligations are, they must all undergo blood sworn oaths of strictest allegiance to the pope to complete their initiation ceremony. All incoming members are duty-bound till death do them part to deploy graphically violent methods in their sworn vow to eliminate every so called potential enemy of the pope as their supreme commander, and that includes by their definition the over 6 billion of us humans on this earth who happen not to be Catholic: That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.
In confirmation of which I hereby dedicate my life, soul, and all corporal powers, and with the dagger which I now receive I will subscribe my name written in my blood in testimony thereof; and should I prove false or weaken in my determination, may my brethren and fellow soldiers of the militia of the Pope cut off my hands and feet and my throat from ear to ear, my belly opened and Sulphur burned therein with all the punishment that can be inflicted upon me on earth and my soul shall be tortured by demons in eternal hell forever.
And the fact that royalty, presidents and the most powerful shadow government figures in the world for many decades have been taking this blood sworn oath to be faithful only to the pope, and no one or nothing else, what does that say about their intentions towards the rest of us on this planet?
In their eyes those of us not amongst the Catholic faithful are deemed heretics who need to be exterminated sooner than later. The part where the oath demands relentless war waged against Freemasons as their eternal enemy is total bullshit. Near half of the powerful Malta Order members just cited are also 33 degree Masons. John, the Protestant arm of the Knights of Malta,[] her husband Prince Philip is a 33rd degree Mason who wants to be reincarnated as a killer virus that will reduce the world population. A longtime goal of the Freemasons has been to infiltrate and take over the Vatican, ultimately destroying both the Catholic Church and Christianity.
At one point in Cardinal Rampolla, a closet mason, came very close to being selected pope. Be it in Europe, Turkey, the Middle East war zones, or for that matter anywhere on earth, this is the global trade that Belgian entrepreneur, banker and former Illuminati associate Ronald Bernard spoke of earlier this year. Once Bernard was exposed to the satanic blood sacrifice of children, the aphrodisiac of unlimited power, wealth and sex with beautiful women no longer held the same compelling allure. Ronald Bernard died under mysterious circumstances while out hiking on a recent August afternoon in Florida.
Yet another ultra-right wing, notorious secret Catholic society of ill repute is Opus Dei, a hardcore anti-Communist, Islamophobic organization that includes both Catholic clergy as well as Catholic laypersons. With its mission to fervently support strong arm tyrants, which the last three popes — John Paul, Ratzinger and Francis are all guilty of, endorsing the Opus Dei movement automatically includes endorsing its overactive role in the massive Catholic pedophile cover-up.
Again, this is their tried and true method of how Satan worshipping child raping war criminals never have to answer for their horrendous assaults against humanity. Their penchant for illegal war making around the globe provides unlimited access to drug-weapons-organ-child trafficking as their most diabolic and evil line of work and play. An ultra-conservative religious group financed by cult leader Sun Myung Moon in addition to funding AmeriCares is the Council for National Policy CNP , boasting powerful religious and political members.
The Process originated in London and over the years has been branded a notorious reputation akin to the Manson family. The Catholic priest was found with his throat slashed from ear to ear after he had been investigating child sex rings in the Catholic Church.
For knowing too much, the DC Madame was very likely murdered in to ensure a tight lid be kept on her little black book that would incriminate scores of high level sexual predators in Washington scandals stay buried.
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Bush White House sleepovers. Lobbyist Jack Abramoff supplied thousands of tax paid dollars so that congressional perverts like DeLay and Hastert could make several trips to the Marianas to seal the deal and keep the lid on the scandal and abuse prolonging it right into the Bush administration. The Council for National Policy has demonstrated a consistent policy of obstructing evidence and covering up international child sex trafficking and high profile pedophilia crimes.
Facing pedophile charges back in Germany in , the occultist Christian minister managed to successfully escape his homeland troubles in January with assistance from the Vatican-Nazi ratline to start life anew in the remote central Chilean wilderness at the foothills of the Andes miles south of the capital Santiago. While men and women were kept apart in a forced labor camp and prohibited from engaging in sex, cult leader Schaefer was free to rape and sodomize children at will. His Colonia Dignidad had absolutely nothing to do with either dignity or religious principles.
Colonia Dignidad was a bizarre violent cult run by a pedophile Nazi Satanist with covert connections to an already existing Nazi ratline network running from the Vatican to South America Paperclip vestige extending through Operation Condor to very high places in governments in the Americas. CIA director George H. Bush was given foreknowledge of the hit and deferring to the CIA-Malta-Condor agenda to promote fascism, Bush was complicit in letting the murder take place on US soil. Buckley[] lied when he wrote: Thus that little trifling incident on Massachusetts Avenue was quickly forgotten so that Malta men — the Buckley boys, Kissinger, Bush, Walters and Pinochet — could all continue their next clandestine scheme as if the DC assassination had never even happened.
Some have suggested Townley to be a mere wannabe CIA secret agent man. Townley was a frequent Colonia camp visitor and prime Schafer collaborator establishing interrogation and torture protocol, complete with soundproof underground torture chambers. Evidence exists of children from Germany being trafficked in to Chile to maintain the Colonia population since no sex other than pedophilia was allowed on the compound.
Also local native Chilean children from the adjacent area attending the Colonia school apparently were also abducted and abused. The Colonia Dignidad community was residence to some resident captives at one point. Also similar to other Mossad-CIA blackmail operations in America and Caribbean, wheeler dealer Schaefer enticed numerous powerful businessmen, politicians, police chiefs, and German Embassy diplomats to parties where illicit sex and child abuse were photographed and filmed that Schaefer kept in secret files.
Pinochet had over other concentration camps and torture centers as well. The US government has a long history through the CIA and military special operations of committing atrocities on every continent. Extrajudicial assassination by US killer drones of civilians both American and foreign are also perpetrated regularly under the public radar.
Secret societies and shadow governments operate with near total impunity as they always have. In absentia in with Schaefer still at large, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to 20 years in a Chilean prison. According to Chilean journalist Hans Strange, who conducted an exhaustive investigation of the case: The sacked chancellor appealed to the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Parolin who advised Francis to intervene, especially after Festing told the Vatican and pope that the chancellor matter was an internal affair to be handled by his own sovereign Order, in so many words, to back off.
Pope Francis promptly reinstated the chancellor and ousted the Festing instead, only the fourth time in a near millennium a Grand Master for life has been terminated and the first since In April the Malta Order council selected the same Italian for a second time as lieutenant to the Grand Master to assume temporary one-year command over the internally disordered Order prior to choosing the next Grand Master.
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And all the time we talked you seemed to see Something down there to smile at in the dust. Oh, it was without prejudice to me! Afterward I went past what you had passed Before we met and you what I had passed. What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun, Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound-And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows, Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers Pale orchises , and scared a bright green snake. The fact is the sweetest dream that labour knows. My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods -Let them think twice before they use their powers To blot out and drink up and sweep away These flowery waters and these watery flowers From snow that melted only yesterday.
Marianne Moore Her most famous poem is perhaps the one entitled, appropriately, "Poetry," in which she hopes for poets who can produce "imaginary gardens with real toads in them. She composed hers in "syllabics". Robinson Jeffers likewise disavowed meter as a natural part of poetry. Moore went even further than Jeffers, wholly denying meter. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes 43 that can dilate, hair that can rise if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand: One must make a distinction however: In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.
Most of it was written between and , although much of the early work was abandoned and the 44 early cantos, as finally published, date from onwards. It is a book-length work, widely considered to present formidable difficulties to the reader. Strong claims have been made for it as one of the most significant works of modernist poetry of the twentieth century. As in Pound's prose writing, the themes of economics, governance, and culture are integral to its content.
The most striking feature of the text, to a casual browser, is the inclusion of Chinese characters as well as quotations in European languages other than English. Recourse to scholarly commentaries is almost inevitable for a close reader. The range of allusion to historical events is very broad, and abrupt changes occur with the minimum of stage directions. There is also a wide geographical spread; Pound added to his earlier interests in the classical Mediterranean culture and East Asia selective topics from medieval and early modern Italy and Provence, the beginnings of the United States, England of the seventeenth century, and details from Africa he had obtained from Leo Frobenius.
References left without explanation abound. The poem also takes us to the catastrophe of the early twentieth century, World War I, and bluntly illustrates its effects on the literary world. Wrong from the start -No, hardly, but, seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date; Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn; Capaneus; trout for factitious bait: Yeats' "The lake Isle of Innisfree" O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, With the little bright boxes piled up neatly upon the shelves And the loose fragment Cavendish and the shag, And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Lend me a little tobacco-shop, or install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the village of Chokan: Two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. Why should I climb the lookout? At sixteen you departed, You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies, And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. It is modelled on the haiku structure, and Pound's interest in the Orient is also a noteworthy character of his work. The title is part of the poem. In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Carl Sandberg Much of his poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. Harriet Monroe, a fellow resident of Chicago, had recently founded Poetry at around this time.
Monroe liked and encouraged Sandburg's plainspeaking free verse style, strongly reminiscent of Walt Whitman. The Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature. The Chicago Poems, and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers and Smoke and Steel represent Sandburg's attempts to found a U. All of these tendencies are manifest in Chicago itself. Then, as now, Chicago was a hub of commodities trading, and a key financial center for agricultural markets.
The city was also a center of the meat-packing industry, and an important railroad hub; these industries are also mentioned in the poem. They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people, Laughing!
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.
It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. It did not give of bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee. Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. Take from the dresser of deal, Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb. Let the lamp affix its beam. Gertrude Stein After moving to Paris in she started to write in earnest: Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Typical quotes are "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Sugar is not a vegetable. Many of the experimental works such as Tender Buttons have since been interpreted by critics as a feminist reworking of partiarchal language.
These works were loved by the avant-garde, but mainstream success initially remained elusive. Her first published book, Three Lives , the stories of three working-class women, has been called a minor masterpiece. Why yes of course. Any one can learn that north of course Is not only north but north as north Why were they worried. What I wish to say is this. William Carlos Williams 52 Many of his earlier poems are influenced by Dadaist and Surrealist principles. In general, he found modern art very inspiring. While Williams disliked Ezra Pound's and especially T. Eliot's see The Waste Land frequent use of allusions to foreign languages, religion, history or art, Williams drew his themes from what he called "the local.
What he meant is that poets should leave traditional poetic forms and unnecessary literary allusions aside and try to see the world through the eyes of an ordinary person. Williams wrote in "plain American which cats and dogs can read", to use a phrase of Marianne Moore, another doubter of poetic meter. He was concerned with writing poetry in a recognizably American idiom. He also coined the Imagist motto "no ideas but in things. Williams is more strongly associated with the American Modernist movement in literature, which rejected European influences in poetry in favor of regional dialogues and influences.
In particular, his call for more regionalism in American literature came on the heels of his brief collaboration with Ezra Pound in editing an early draft of T. Eliot's epic poem The Waste Land. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vinesLifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approachesThey enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.
All about them the cold, familiar windNow the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf One by one objects are definedIt quickens: We lived long together a life filled, if you will, with flowers. So that I was cheered when I came first to know that there were flowers also in hell. I begin with a design for a hearse. For Christ's sake not black-nor white either--and not polished!
Let it be weathered--like a farm wagon-with gilt wheels this could be applied fresh at small expense or no wheels at all: The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he goes to live with his grandparents after his parents have died. The primary character is Bishop Jean Marie Latour, who travels alone from Cincinnati to New Mexico to take charge of the newly established diocese of New Mexico, which has only just become a territory of the United States.
He is later assisted by his childhood friend Father Joseph Vaillant. At the time of his departure, Cincinnati is the end of the railway line west, so Latour must travel by riverboat to the Gulf of Mexico, and thence overland to New Mexico, a journey which takes an entire year. He spends the rest of his life establishing the Roman Catholic church in New Mexico, where he dies in old age. The novel is notable for its portrayal of two well-meaning and devout French priests who encounter a well-entrenched Spanish-Mexican clergy they are sent to supplant when the United States acquired New Mexico and the Vatican, in turn, remapped its dioceses.
Several of these entrenched priests are depicted in classic manner as exempla of greed, avarice and gluttony, while others live simple, abstemious lives among the Indians. Cather portrays the Hopi and Arapaho sympathetically, and her characters express the near futility of overlaying their religion on a millennia-old Native culture. Cather's vivid landscape descriptions are also memorable.
Also, if you ever see the names Quentin Compson, of if you see the surname Snopes, you're looking at Faulkner. This interweaving and nonlinear structure makes any true synopsis of the novel difficult, especially since the narrators are all unreliable in their own way, making their accounts not necessarily trustworthy at all times.
The general outline of the story is the decline of the Compson family, a once noble southern family descended from civil war hero General Compson. The family falls victim to those vices which Faulkner believed were responsible for the problems in the reconstructed South: Especially in regard to the latter, the novel has been often described as having the thematic structure of a Greek tragedy. Over the course of the thirty years or so related in the novel, the family falls into financial ruin, loses its religious faith and the respect of the town of Jefferson, and many of them die tragically.
A famous passage that may appear on the GRE, it is narrated by Quentin: I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: The first strand tells the story of Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman who is trying to find the father, Lucas Burch, of her unborn child.
With that purpose she leaves her home town and walks several hundred miles afoot to Jefferson, a town in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha county. There she is supported by Byron Bunch, an employee in the planing mill who falls in love with Lena and hopes to marry her. Bunch keeps secret that Lucas Burch is hiding in town under the alias Joe Brown. Lena is a simple child of 57 nature, representing positive human qualities like innocence and endurance. Her journey in August and the birth of her child are symbolic of the eternal cycle of nature. The narrative plot of Lena's story is also circular; it builds a framework around the two other plotstrands.
One of these is the story of the enigmatic character Joe Christmas.
One day he comes to the planing mill in Jefferson and asks for a job. The work at the planing mill is just a cover up for his illegal alcohol business. He has a sexual relationship with Joanna Burden, who is descended from a formerly powerful abolitionist family. She lets Joe live in the cabin behind her house. Joanna Burden continues her ancestors' struggle for Black emancipation, which makes her an outsider in the society of Jefferson, much like Christmas. Her relationship with Christmas begins rather disturbingly, with an ambiguous episode in which sexual abuse is suggested, and it ends in disaster.
As a result of sexual frustration and the beginning of menopause, she turns to religion. At the climax of her relation to Christmas, she tries to force him, by threatening him with a gun, to admit publicly his black ancestry and to join a black law firm. But the old gun jams and Christmas gets away.
Joanna Burden is murdered soon thereafter. Her throat is slit and she is nearly decapitated. Her body is carried outside and her house is set on fire. The murder was presumably committed by Joe Christmas, but this is not explicitly narrated; one could argue that Burch murdered her.
During his unsuccessful escape attempt, Christmas is shot and castrated by a national Guardsman named Percy Grimm. The third plot strand tells the story of Reverend Gail Hightower. He is obsessed by the past adventures of his Confederate grandfather, who was killed while stealing a few chickens from a farmer's shed.
Hightower's community dislikes him because of his sermons about his dead grandfather, and because of the scandal surrounding his personal life: The only character who does not turn his back on the Reverend is Byron Bunch, who visits Hightower from time to time. Bunch also tries to convince the Reverend to give the imprisoned Christmas an alibi, but Hightower initially refuses. When Christmas escapes from police custody he runs to Hightower's house where and tries to hide.
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Hightower then accepts Byron's suggestion, but it is too late as Percy Grimm is close behind. At the end of the novel, the Reverend helps Lena to deliver her baby, a circumstance that helps him break his inner isolation and makes him feel his approaching death. In her upstairs room, she hides Barron's corpse, which explains the horrid 58 stench that emits from Miss Emily's house.
The popularity of the story is due in no small part to its gruesome ending. The story explores many themes, including the society of the South at that time, the role of women in the South, and extreme psychosis. In the story, the townspeople's points of views on Emily actually reflect the society's value at that moment to some extent. Although the townspeople don't have direct contact with Emily, their views on her and her family greatly affect her life. Their praises and admiration influence her father to keep her sheltered longer than she actually needs to be.
Her father controls her thoughts and lifestyle. Emily feels that she is released when her father is dead. She dives into love with Homer and neglects people's judgments on her. When she realizes that Homer intends to leave her again, she makes sure that he would always be with her, whether he is alive or not. In his death Emily finds eternal love which is something no one could ever take away from her. A famous quote about Emily and her father: We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door.
So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized. Scott Fitzgerald — Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. In his own age, Fitzgerald was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation", or the Americans born in the s who came of age during World War I. He crafted five novels and dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
Many admire what they consider his remarkable emotional honesty. His heroes — handsome, confident, and doomed — blaze brilliantly before exploding, and his heroines are typically beautiful, intricate, and alluring. He has no ties to the society of the rich in which he circulates, and no one quite knows how he made his fortune. Some believe he is a bootlegger. Rumors circulate of his "killing a man", or being a German spy during the Great War and the possibility of his being a cousin of contemporaneous German ruler Kaiser Wilhelm. However, despite the glamorous parties he throws, with their countless gatecrashers whom he generously tolerates, Gatsby is a lonely man.
All he really wants is to "repeat the past" — to be reunited with the love of his life and golden girl, Daisy. That's why he was up to getting rich, not only, that he wouldn't end like his father, a farmer, but also to regain Daisy. But Daisy is now Daisy Buchanan, married to the staid, respectable millionaire and famous polo player Tom Buchanan, and the couple now has a young child. For Gatsby, though, Daisy's new status as mother and wife hardly constitutes an obstacle in conquering his love for her; and Daisy, feeling trapped and bored in her marriage with the unfaithful Tom, is flattered by the return of Gatsby's attention.
Carraway has moved into the small bungalow next to a mansion owned by the millionaire Gatsby a "factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy". Eventually, Carraway cynically realizes that the rich, as respectable as they may seem superficially, are indeed "careless people," and Tom and Daisy are no exception.
Tom has a mistress, Myrtle, the wife of the gas station owner in the wasteland of ashes between the fabulous mansions on Long Island and New York City, located somewhere around present day Flushing, Queens, New York. Nick meets and quickly makes friends with Gatsby, though, and becomes his liaison with Daisy. One afternoon, after a confrontation between Tom and Gatsby over Daisy, Daisy runs over Myrtle while driving back from the city.
Tom misleads Myrtle's heartbroken husband George unintentionally, implying that the accident was Gatsby's fault, and Gatsby is consequently shot by George Wilson. Wilson commits suicide immediately afterward. Hardly anyone, and not even Daisy, comes out to Gatsby's funeral, and Nick, Gatsby's sole remaining friend, must attend it alone, where he meets Gatsby's father, a poor farmer. Gatsby is buried with the same mystery in which he suddenly appeared. It eluted us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further And one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
A work that intimates the times as well as revealing a personal tragedy, the short story is his most often anthologized. Fitzgerald wrote the story amidst the turmoil of his own life, and that life is in many ways drawn out in "Babylon Revisited. It features the characters Charlie Wales and Helen Wales. Scott Fitzgerald, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a wealthy and attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature and has a series of romances.
Excerpt from the novel Book 1: The Romantic Egotist, Chapter 1: Amory, Son of Beatrice: Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara.
In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions 60 appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half-obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her. It would be his first novel published in nine years, and the last novel that he would complete.
Ernest Hemmingway An American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His distinctive writing style is characterized by terse minimalism and understatement and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth century fiction. Hemingway's protagonists are typically stoics, often seen as projections of his own character—men who must show "grace under pressure. Hemingway, nicknamed "Papa," was part of the s expatriate community in Paris, as described in his novel A Moveable Feast.
Known as part of "the Lost Generation," a name coined and popularized by Gertrude Stein, he led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. The main characters are Jake Barnes and Brett Ashley. Barnes suffered an injury during World War I that makes him unable to consummate his relationship with Brett sexually.
As an expert in the use of explosives, he is given an assignment to blow up a bridge to accompany a simultaneous attack on the city of Segovia.
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A substantial portion of the novel is told through the thoughts of Robert Jordan, with flashbacks to meetings with Russians in Madrid and some reflections on his father and grandfather. Another character, Pilar, relates events that demonstrate the incredible brutality of civil war, in one case by the actions of a revolutionary mob and in another by those of governmental authorities. Henry falls in love with the English nurse Catherine Barkley. After he is wounded at the front by a trench mortar shell, she tends to him in the hospital during his recuperation, and their relationship develops.
His recuperation and romance with the now pregnant Catherine ends abruptly when Henry must return to the front. Henry narrowly escapes death at the hands of fanatical Italian soldiers, who are executing officers separated from their troops during the Italians' disastrous retreat following the Battle of Caporetto. He finds Catherine, and after a sojourn in an Italian resort, the couple flees to Switzerland on the eve of Henry's arrest for deserting.
In Switzerland, their child is born dead, and Catherine dies shortly after due to hemorrhages. A Farewell to Arms is an excellent example of the simple, terse prose style that made Hemingway famous. Henry James Yes: James could easily be pushed out of the "modern" category, but he's sufficiently in-between to qualify on this site.
You can count on James' long, involute syntax to make an appearance on your exam. He has a lot of testable material, so it's best to focus on knowing A his style, and B the names of his characters. The guidebooks are pretty clear on what James' style looks and feels like. Lambert Strether is from Woollett, Massachusetts and he has come to Europe at the request of his employer, Mrs. Newsome's son, Chad, has been in Paris for a long time and the Newsomes are worried that Chad will never return home. Strether is to bring Chad back home. Despite the assistance of his old friend, Waymarsh, and his new friend, Maria Gostrey, Strether is unable to fulfill this task.
Newsome's "ambassador," sent to Paris to protect her interests. Strether arrives in Paris and his trip becomes a return to his own youth. Strether is charmed by the Countess, Madame de Vionnet, a married woman with whom Chad has begun a relationship. Quite impressed by the Countess, Strether agrees to help her as well - though he does not know how he will be able to appease both Mrs.
Newsome and the Countess. From the very beginning, Strether's plan is doomed to fail. He hopes to convince Mrs. Newsome that the Countess has been a positive influence on Chad and that Chad has changed for the better. Waymarsh gives Strether very sound advice: Strether should either follow his directions from Mrs. Newsome, or give up altogether. Strether rejects this advice and tries to find the compromise between two conflicting positions. Just when Chad seems willing to co back home to Woollett, it is Strether who convinces the young man to stay in Paris for a little while longer.
Newsome sends her daughter, Sarah Pocock Chad's sister , to bring Chad home. Sarah arrives with her husband, Jim Pocock, and her sister-in-law, Mamie Pocock. It is suggested that Chad will return home to marry Mamie Pocock and continue in the family business: Unlike Strether, Sarah Pocock is not amused by Society and its trappings, nor is she impressed with the Countess, nor is she inspired by the architecture and atmosphere of Paris.
Sarah intends to do her job and she does it quickly. It does not take very long for Chad to get himself ready to leave Paris. His condition to Sarah is that he will agree to return home if Strether gives him the word. Sarah turns to Strether, considering that the task has been completed - for how could Strether refuse? This is, however, exactly what Strether does. Fearing that Chad will return home and live a miserable life in business, Strether looks at his own miserable life and is unable to condemn Chad to a similar fate.
Strether knows that Chad will return home regardless of what he says.
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Still, Strether does not want the blot on his conscience. This move is costly for Strether: The possibility of his marriage with Mrs. Newsome is nullified as well. In sum, Strether, a man with very little money, has lost the opportunity to get a good deal more. In the end of the novel, the only solace that he has is in knowing that he has been true to his ideals and has gained nothing for himself. Of course Marcher is a self-centered egoist, believing that he is precluded from marrying so that he does not subject his wife to his "spectacular fate".
So he takes May to the theatre and invites her to an occasional dinner, while not allowing her to really get close to him for her own sake. As he sits idly by and allows the best years of his life to pass, he takes May down as well, until the denouement wherein he learns that the great misfortune of his life was to throw it away, and to ignore the love of a good woman, based upon his preposterous sense of foreboding.
An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep it secret from Maggie that they know each other, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum.
Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers? It is the story of a young female American, Isabel Archer, who inherits a large amount of money, which left her to the Machiavellan schemings of two European expatriates. Like many of James' novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably Italy. It is set in Venice. She is overly flirtatious and dies a tragic death. The reader is challenged to determine if the protagonist, a nameless governess, is reliably reporting events or instead is some kind of neurotic with an overheated imagination.
To further muddy the waters, her written account of the experience -- a frame tale -- is being read many years later at a Christmas house party by someone who claims to have known her. An unnamed narrator listens to a manuscript read by a male friend from a former governess whom the latter claimed to know and who is now dead. A young governess is hired by a man who has found himself responsible for his niece and nephew after the death of their parents.
He lives in London and has no interest whatsoever in the children. The boy is at a boarding school. The girl, Flora, is living at his country home where she is cared for by the housekeeper, Mrs. He gives the governess full charge of the children and makes it clear he never wants to hear from her again regarding them. The governess travels to her new employer's house and begins her duties.
Shortly thereafter, the boy, Miles, turns up after being expelled from his school. For some mysterious reason, the headmaster feels he is a threat to the other boys. The governess begins to see and hear strange things.