... I know who that someone is and that's enough for me to know that that person is with me." It becomes a voice for the people that cannot be hushed. With Captain Corelli's Mandolin the reader is instantaneously made aware of the subject of music through the title, and as soon as passion and love begin to become prominent in the novel, music does the same. Music is used to both explore and represent many ideas within it. In this essay I intend to look at these ideas and how they contribute to the novel itself. After reading the novel it is obvious that without the central theme of music the relationships that develop throughout would not have been given the chance to do so. The theme of music, which in itself is a complex device, is used to explore the polyphony and the unpredictable nature of love and how ...

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