In the previous episode, we looked at how Shakespeare created one of the most complex and alive characters in all of literature. Part of what gives Hamlet life are the contradictions and paradoxes of his character. And these contradictions are mirrored in the different registers of speech that ...
Now the Chevalier O’Keefe, Geraldine, had, like me, one weakness. He was enormously susceptible to all sorts and conditions of women. Besides being a sentimentalist he was a romantic, a vain fellow, a man of wild passions, a little blind in one eye and almost stone-blind in the other...
“Seeking, seeking the fulfilment in the deep passional self; diseased with self-con-sciousness and sex in the head, foiled by the very loving weakness of the husband who has not the courage to withdraw into his own stillness and singleness, and put the wife under the spell of his ...
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After stripping the body for valuables, he started removing pieces of flesh to make "ass jerky," before having Lucy do it. On the way to the Super Duper Mart, he also forced her to drink contaminated water, delighting her with breaking a Vault dweller. A brief moment of weakness resulted...
out of your nostrils to add the world? I don’t need words to describe the silence that can be lodged into bodies as years roll. I have reached my lost loved ones in the brevity of letters they will never read. We let go the minute we love. We don’t ...
It inspired a train of thought about why I could never live in Japan. Before I published this post, I ran the ideas below by some expat friends. I wanted them to tell me I was off my rocker, and to give me a different perspective. Instead they said “Nora, we would really like ...
She implored me to forgive her weakness; but it was the first time she was to be separated from her parent; and conscious as she was that it was to be for ever, she could not repress the feeling that rose, despite of herself, to her heart. She had, however, prepared a letter, at...
However, his ego feels the need todosomething to prove his worth.“He was very much alarmed as well as disgusted; he wished himself a hundred miles away—yet somehow he could not go straight back toThorinand Company empty-handed.”[1] Bilbo feels the need to impress the Dwarves, which ...
He laments that he believes his own weakness has delivered Azeroth into the face of ruin. The plane of water displays Thrall's desire, where he is seen laying down his weapon in front of Varian and making peace with his enemies. It was also shown that he desired to be free of the ...