60 pages • 2 hours read
Jess WalterBeautiful Ruins
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
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The phrase “we want what we want” appears multiple times throughout the text. What does this phrase mean in terms of the overall theme of the universality of desire? How is want distinguished from need?
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Compare Pasquale to Richard Burton. Who is the true romantic leading man in Beautiful Ruins?
3.
Research behind-the-scenes information on the production of Cleopatra. Is Michael Deane’s account of the production in Chapter 15 an account based in truth or bitter libel?
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