In the context of the French counter-revolution by the monarchists following the proclamation of the Republic, Captain Poldark (Netflix) told his wife, Demelza, in Cornwall, that “war has never been easy.”
He was torn between rescuing a doctor friend, an Englishman held captive in the revolutionaries’ prisons (reaching that enemy shore marked as a spy for the crown), or remaining to manage his copper mines and ensure work for hundreds of miners whose alternative was utter misery.
No decision is easy when it comes to loyalties to friendship, honor, spouse, army, community and homeland.
Poldark chose friendship and community, rescued the captive, became a hero, but paid a great price for it. In symbolic terms, an eye for an eye has left us half blind. Is there any other option?
—MCC. (Translated from Spanish by GT).
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