manticised such as the battle scenes in which Spartacus is portrayed as a hero who is a symbol of freedom and salvation to the slaves. The language is particularly emotive in order to evoke passion from the reader. "It is a moment of changed motion in history, a beginning, a stirring, a wordless whisper, a portent a flash of light which signifies earth-shaking thunder and blinding lightning. It is an army which suddenly has the knowledge that the victory to which it is committed must change the world, and therefore it must change the world or have no victory." (Fast, 1951:216) and "They crowd in, driven by their officers fighting and clawing to reach Spartacus, to drag him down, to kill him, to cut off the head of a monster." (Fast, 1951: 218)
             The gladiators throughout the novel are portrayed by Fast in a very animalistic way. They are kept in "an iron-barred enclosure" (Fast, 1951:81). They are seen as wild and barbaric so that it
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