War is a prominent theme in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. This force damages and destroys lives creating a number of victims along the way. A victim is a person killed or injured as a result of an event, circumstance or in pursuit of an object or in gratification of a passion. There are a number of victims in the novel but not all of them are destroyed by war. The megalomaniacs are those crave power and …showed first 75 words of 3177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3177 total…the good sides of Carlo and Father Arsenios, making them heroes in their own right. It affects Iannis, Corelli and Pelagia by making it impossible to live their lives as they would wish due to political, social and geographical restraints on them, surviving only to be physically and emotionally wrecked by forces of nature and love. The novel highlights the dreadful and ridiculous nature of war and concludes that nobody is truly unaffected by it.