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Write three pages analyzing the influence that the city has on the obsession of the protagonists in Georg Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.  How do Bruges and San Francisco become “main characters” who “guide the action” in the respective works?  Write two pages on Bruges in which you quote the novel sufficiently to make your case, and write one page on the film drawing on particular scenes.  Develop a thesis about the nature of a city, and focus on the aspects of the urban setting that propel the plot and affect the characters.