In the novel "Fifth Business", Robertson Davies successfully relates all themes of guilt, loyalty, and duty to the lives of Dunstan Ramsey, Paul Dempster, and Percy Boyd Staunton. He achieves this by showing how the characters react in different situations, and by their relationships with others in the story. Each one of them feel guilt for specific events which occurred in their lives, a certain loyalty towards something, whether it be religion, a person or interest, or a duty they feel responsible for.
Dunstan and Paul are certainly plagued by guilt throughout the story, and arguably Percy. Dunstan is very much affected by the incident with the snowball, causing
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