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...been happily termed a "form of barbarism." Such attacks, it is easy to see, result more from the peculiarity of the art itself than from any fundamental reason. The actor does not heed them. That he is merely an exponent of mimicry, requiring no special training, is a monstrous fallacy. The true actor's task is rather to reproduce man in idealized form. This is as imperative to art in drama as it is to art on canvas or in marble...
...that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity is noticed by the spectator...
...this connection the lack of individual freedom is often striking, as in the case of choosing a profession, when it is considered monstrous for a young man to decide for himself without the formal consent of his family. The whole emotional sentiment of the race makes a Frenchman regard the welfare of the community before his personal privileges and rights...
...hours to include evening lectures and recitations. Lectures at six-thirty, seven-thirty, and eight thirty, except Saturdays, would increase the number of hours forty per cent and probably afford adequate relief, for the present at least. This plan, to the average Harvard man, may appear at first sigh monstrous, but there is no reason why it should be so. German and English students are accustomed to evening appointments, and Harvard men should not be disturbed at the idea...
...passing through the lowest circles, they come upon a frozen pool, in which incased in the ice are the traitors of various degrees. By this pool they meet and conquer Dis, or Satan, once the fairest of Heaven's angles. The picture of Satan is the most horrible and monstrous to be found in the work. After leaving Dis they turn their faces upward till at length they come forth upon the surface of the earth to see again the stars...