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The Tower - Coggle Diagram
The Tower
Ending
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Perhaps Caroline has succumbed to her injuries, her spirit broken, or perhaps she has survived and will go back to her unfulfilling marriage
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Main Characters
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Giovana di Ferramamo
She is a woman with a 400 year generational difference with Caroline yet they share multiple similarities. both Giovanna and Caroline have similar challenges. Both died mysteriously with an impending presence of domineering husbands.
Caroline's feelings
Going up
While going up her iternal voice tells her to turn back, but she continues climbing the stairs, meaby because it's less scarrier being alone in an abandoned Tower than at "home" with her huseband.
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Going down
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Has suicidal thoughts: "It would be much easier to fall (...) to take one step to the left and fall and it would all be over"
She had to "FORCE" herself to go down, as if it were against her will, or against the voice in her head that repeated it would be easier to fall.
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Setting
The Tower of Sacrifice (470 steps) built in 1535 by Niccolo di Ferramamo: superstitious fear left the tower intact when in 1549, the
surrounding Village was completely destroyed.
In Florence, Italy and the Italian country-side
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Characters relationship
Caroline and Neville..... Laski is using the tower itself as phallic symbolism to highlight the control that men have over the lives of women. Something which is very true when it comes to Caroline’s relationship with her husband Neville. Though Neville is not present in the story he still has the ability to control Caroline