Everything you need to understand or teach My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart.
Stewart combines the ideas of Shakespeare and Donne to create the major theme of My Brother Michael: being true to oneself while being involved in mankind. According to the hero Simon, who quotes both Shakespeare and Donne, the really great man sees the pattern of life and his own place in it.
He stands for the ideals which ancient Greece gave to the Western world — "truth, straight thinking, freedom, beauty." While committed...