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Exploring Red Dead Redemption II’s literary allusions and influences.

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  • Table of Contents
  • Most Recent
  • Index & TL;DR
  • Works & People
  • Resources
  • About
  • On Interpretation
  • John Marston galloping over a railroad bridge under the rising moon.
    0. The Past is Prologue: Sontag & Evans

    Outlaws in the Big Trees: More Sontag & Evans in RDR2

    July 23, 2025 /

    How the enemies and allies of John Sontag and Chris Evans inspired characters in RDR2.

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  • Arthur Morgan at Clemens Point, walking towards the sun as it sets over Flatiron Lake.
    III. Arthurian Legend

    White Stag: More Allusions to King Arthur and His Knights in RDR2

    November 13, 2024 /

    The remaining allusions to King Arthur in RDR2 that didn’t fit into essays elsewhere: what's up with Kieran's beheading, why Arthur sees a deer in his honor visions, Pleasance, and much more.

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Categories

  • 0. The Past is Prologue: Sontag & Evans
  • i. Meta
  • I. Paradise Lost
  • II. Paradise Regained
  • III. Arthurian Legend
  • IV. Interlude: Desperado
  • V. Wuthering Heights
  • VI. The Bible
  • VII. The Inferno
  • VIII. Shakespeare
  • IX. Various Works
  • X. Warlock

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