The Army List is a listing of English army generals. It symbolizes name and identity because Jack uncovers his real name and his origins through this source.
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Act 3, Part 2
...Algernon can remember his full name. Jack rushes to his bookshelves, which house volumes of Army Lists from the last forty years. Jack feverishly flips through the books’ long lists of “ghastly...
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