Mans Fate
... Irony is present throughout Man’s Fate and is documented in the body of the novel as well as through two of Malraux’s main characters Chen and Kyo. ... (Chinese Communist Party) Man’s Fate is based on a true event, a failed Communist uprising in China at the time of the alliance of Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalist forces and the Communists. ... Man’s Fate showed the irony a very human aspect of a doomed revolution where betrayal is the name of the game and expediency the only applicable rule.