Word: scipio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, Caligula's argument, that "one is always free at the expense of others," is so convincingly developed that the play cannot prove it wrong. Camus helps defeat his own cause by denying his exponents of humanism the articulate passion that he grants Caligula. Scipio and Cherea, the spokesmen for humanism, are a pair of pale weaklings compared to the mighty Caligula, who destroys what dramatic effectiveness they might have had by pitying them, by understanding them...