The theme of identity and disguise is supported by the suggestion that the names Athos, Porthos, and Aramis may be pseudonyms, reflecting the characters' hidden backgrounds and the personas they have adopted as Musketeers.
D' Artagnan relates that on his first visit to M
de
Treville,
captain
of
the
king's
Musketeers, he met in the antechamber
three young men, serving in the illustrious
corps into which he was soliciting the honor
of being received, bearing the names of
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
We must confess these three strange
names struck US;
and it immediately
Occurred
to
US
that
they
were
but
pseudonyms, under which d'Artagnan had
disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else
that the bearers of these borrowed names
had themselves chosen them on the day in
which, from caprice, discontent, or want of
fortune, they had donned the simple
Musketeer's uniformWhat text evidence
supports the theme? In a short sentence
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