Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Billy Budd. The allegorical classic by Melville has been made into a somber drama in which good and evil meet with a clash of symbols and then founder in the green indifference...
...then is wed precautiously to a poor farmer-the sons of such a man, Aegisthus reasons, cannot hope to occupy a throne, and therefore would not dare to kill him. Vain precautions. Orestes returns secretly and at Electra's furious insistence, slaughters the usurper and his evil bride. The gods approve the murder of the tyrant, but for the act of matricide the Furies fall upon Orestes and drive him into exile...
Billy Budd. An exciting and disturbing study of good and evil, based on Herman Melville's moralistic novel; Peter Ustinov directed the picture with style, and plays one of the principal roles with skill...
Billy Budd. An exciting and disturbing study of good and evil, based on Herman Melville's moralistic novel; Peter Ustinov directed the picture with style, and plays one of the principal roles with skill...
Sartre of course is not really talking about hell. He is talking about existence. Existence, he means to say, is a paradoxical situation in which no man can help another to save himself and no man can save himself alone. Indeed, in Sartre's opinion all communication is evil and love is a kind of murder. Since one existent cannot see another as a subject but only as an object, the "stare" of the other interrupts "the secret state" that to the existent is his existence, and this interruption causes a "hemorrhage" of freedom that drains being into nothingness...