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Originally Posted by Beth
I think it is, CJ, (to carry that constricting theme a bit further). The whole idea of an imperial line, a prescribed birthplace, the Grand Duke's fury with his advisors and with Grand Duchess Dorothea's gynęcologists. His comment ''But it's unheard of! I cannot understand it! People talk nowadays about heredity,'' speaks to the heart of imperialist thinking? Or is that too broad an interpretation?
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I'd forgotten that exchange. He seemed worried about whether he is to be blamed at that point, and to have no one to blame was considered worse. I guess that shows he was thinking about his son more than himself so that's something.
At the risk of getting ahead of the first couple chapters, inheritance seems to be a theme to watch. Klaus Heinrich has inherited lack of choice (a constriction).