Thomas Edward Lawrence - The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Desert

The final dissertation focuses on the figure of Thomas Edward Lawrence, known by the audience as Lawrence of Arabia, or as a student of history, an archeologist, a spy or a king without crown. The intention to write a dissertation on such a complex figure of history, considered as a legend by many people, is predicated on the magic and the romance behind this figure which is worth considering in the pool of poets and writers of English literature. He had a simple style of telling the stories. However, what makes him a legend was himself and his capacity to make the desert alive in the English Culture. Thomas Edward Lawrence is a character of the history that almost one hundred years before described the Arab population better than others did, finding the features that nowadays are the bases of the international crisis. He was talented: he was good at numbers and at people, and this talent, merged with a spark of luck, led T. E. Lawrence to be a legend, a king of the desert. A desert, which helps men discover their own limits. It comes to a desert, where a lot of blood was shred in the past and still today. ​