Advanced Placement (AP), 22.04.2020 11:57, dylanjones6996

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
James Fenimore Cooper- Last of the Mohicans

1.What is the speaker's perspective towards history based on the idea that a hero's "brightness" is imaginary?
2.What are the similarities between history and love? What ideas, beliefs, or feelings do they both share?
3.It has been said that "history is written by the victors". Describe a historical figure who is looked upon with "brightness" but may actually be viewed much differently by an opposing group.

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