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After the Count asks Bounce to move the fireworks display closer to the Countess's window, Figaro remarks: "How attentive he is to his Wife." Why does Figaro say this? Is the Count truly an attentive husband? What literary device is this an example of? Give some other examples of this type of literary device in Marriage of Figaro.
When the Count asks for the fireworks to be moved, it is because Bounce had been planning to make the display in the garden, which was the Count's planned rendezvous point with Susan. He uses the excuse that the Countess is indisposed and will be better able to enjoy the fireworks if they are closer to her window so that he will seem caring and...
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