Exploring the Motif of Betrayal in Modernist Literature

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Exploring the Motif of Betrayal in Modernist Literature

a. Select six quotes from “Flowering Judas” (from the beginning, middle, and end) you feel fit together in a repeated pattern in the story.

“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“This is my body and my blood.”

“Why doesn’t he do something?”

“They are stupid, they are lazy, they are treacherous, and they would cut my throat for nothing.”

“The malice, the cleverness, the wickedness, the sharpness of wit, the hardness of heart, stipulated…