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Mikhail Lermontov, the central character, is ten years younger than Pushkin and a great admirer of his. Like much but not all that is in the play, these facts correspond to historical reality. Both men are major figures in Russian literature and lived in the first part of the nineteenth...
A Hero of Our Time deals with political decisions, but it is not, Shea points out, political theater, at least not in the Brechtian or propaganda sense. The author prefers to call his work a "play of character," in which the audience is supposed to deal with the problems in...
WHEN several Harvard students were indicted by the Grand Jury of Middlesex County on various charges of trespass and assault, and a far larger number were suspended from school, the President of Harvard College issued a statement to defend his actions. It judiciously began: "A series of trespasses having been...
After this Lockean statement, the circular went on to show the facts of Quincy's unjustifiable act. First, President Quincy was accused of saying to a group of several students, "We want no Southerners here; we cannot prevent your coming, but we don't want you; go somewhere else." Second...
It's no accident that these events are odd. Certain branches of the novel of personal change have long toyed with extreme metaphors for psychological and moral progress. Poe and Hawthorne, for example, used poison and death in connection with love and self-realization. The moral weight they put on...