Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Katherine Mansfield was a very ill woman as well as a greatly gifted writer. Racked by rheumatism, pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis (she died of it at the age of 34), she was also dogged by devils of the mind: fear, guilt, frustration...
...group feels the Big Three have implied that they are pure and the rest of the Ivy League has gone the way of Saturday's Heroes. The other clique senses no guilt; they simply would like to be on the purity bandwagon...
...Amazonian Lady Macbeth of brute strength and indomitable will; her strength seems to be drawn from an immense source of nervous energy. This, joined with her sensitivity and fragile beauty, makes it seem impossible that she should last as long as she does under the same strain of guilt which overcomes Macbeth. The sleep-walking scene, when the sham is gone and there is nothing left but the subconscious, is the finest moment of the play...
William Devlin's interpretation of the character of Macbeth is fully integrated with that of Lady Macbeth so the full force of the contrast between them is clear. Where Lady Macbeth's sense of guilt drives her to madness, that of Macbeth drives him to a hardness which is actually insensitivity. Macbeth, however, beset by his images, must draw upon the calmness of his wife. Devlin perfectly portrays his frenzied state as evil overcomes him and he can see that he will never have peace...
...There are never any circumstances which justify the reckless imputation of treason or other moral guilt to individuals in or out of office...