Demi-devils: The Character of Shakespeare's Villains |
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... plot requires a villain . LUCIUS : Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds ? AARON : Ay , that I had not done a thousand more . Even now I curse the day ( and yet I think Few come within the compass of my curse ) Wherein I did not ...
... plot requires a villain . LUCIUS : Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds ? AARON : Ay , that I had not done a thousand more . Even now I curse the day ( and yet I think Few come within the compass of my curse ) Wherein I did not ...
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... plot , for he is the only one who knows about the plight of Lear and Cordelia . Just before this passage , Edmund makes another statement that reveals a pathetic , human quality in this social outcast . When the bodies of Goneril and ...
... plot , for he is the only one who knows about the plight of Lear and Cordelia . Just before this passage , Edmund makes another statement that reveals a pathetic , human quality in this social outcast . When the bodies of Goneril and ...
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... plot . With Claudius , remorse occurs as occasions in the play re- mind him of the blackness of his villainy . Claudius ' thinking is represented as something more than a means for explaining cer- tain elements of the plot to the ...
... plot . With Claudius , remorse occurs as occasions in the play re- mind him of the blackness of his villainy . Claudius ' thinking is represented as something more than a means for explaining cer- tain elements of the plot to the ...
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