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What Do You Think of the Old Man’S Point of View? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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What do you think of the old man’s point of view?

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Kaspar can describe what the war was like at Blenheim, but he cannot explain why the belligerents went to war. Nor does he seem curious about the causes. All that matters to him is that Austria and England won a glorious victory. Old Kaspar unquestioningly accepts the loss of innocent women and children in the Battle of Blenheim as one of the prices of the glorious victory. His complacent attitude is not unlike that of modem politicians who dismiss the deaths of innocent civilians in arenas of war by referring to them with the impersonal phrase “collateral damage.”

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Chapter 1.04: After Blenheim - Extra Questions

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Chapter 1.04 After Blenheim
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