He casts his father, however, as everyman
Does "He casts his father, however, as everyman" mean "He looks at his father's memories as all people's memory"?
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Inspired perhaps by the fiftieth anniversaries of the Second World War in the mid-1990s, Anglo-Irish artist Hughie O’Donoghue focuses on his father’s war experiences: evacuation through Cherbourg in June 1940 and the Italian campaign of 1944, specifically the Battle of Monte Cassino. He casts his father, however, as ‘everyman,’ believing that only pursuit of the particular can reveal the universal.
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red apple Does "He casts his father, however, as everyman" mean "He looks at his father's memories as all people's memory"? No. casts his father as "everyman" = chooses the role of an ordinary soldier for his father
- red apple Does "He casts his father, however, as everyman" mean "He looks at his father's memories as all people's memory"?
- No.
- casts his father as "everyman" = chooses the role of an ordinary soldier for his father
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red appleDoes "He casts his father, however, as everyman" mean "He looks at his father's memories as all people's memory"?
No.
casts his father as "everyman" = chooses the role of an ordinary soldier for his father
0He uses his father to represent all soldiers. Everyman was a character in a medieval play.
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