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| i hate hitler | |||
| Easy is the son of foolish parents, who spoiled him. His father, in particular, regards himself as a philosopher, with a firm belief in the "rights of man". As he is a rich man, his belief, which the novel presents as very foolish, is never seriously contradicted. | |||
| Rikz TNM | |||
| RAKZ | |||
| By the time he is a teenager Easy has adopted his father's point of view, to the point where he no longer believes in private property. There are two very ] short chapters. | |||
| PEAS | |||
| DROST | |||
| Easy joins the navy, becomes friendly with a ] ] named Mesty, an escaped ], who had been a ] in ]. Mesty is sympathetic to Easy's philosophizing. Even though Marryat tries to render Mesty's speech in dialect, he portrays him sympathetically, allowing him dignity. | |||
| Easy becomes a competent officer, in spite of his notions. By the end of the novel both Easy and Mesty have come to a more conventional view of rights, and private property. | |||
| ==Adaptation== | ==Adaptation== | ||
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Mr. Midshipman Easy is an 1836 novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired Captain in the 19th century Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction.
Plot summary
i hate hitler Rikz TNM RAKZ PEAS DROST
Adaptation
It was adapted twice into films in 1916 and in 1935 as Midshipman Easy, directed by Carol Reed.
External links
- Mr Midshipman Easy at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- Mr Midshipman Easy at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
- Mr Midshipman Easy via LibriVox (audiobooks)
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