This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a line from the play's opening lines, in which the hero of the play is described as a "damned bastard" who is "so hard to breathe" . This is a reference to the fact that the hero's father is a traitor, and that his mother is also a traitor. The line also refers to a line
This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. It's a line from the play's opening lines, in which the hero of the play is described as a "damned bastard" who is "so hard to breathe" . This is a reference to the fact that the hero's father is a traitor, and that his mother is also a traitor. The line also refers to a line