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...hear it from the pulpit, from Marxist socialist professors, that people commit crime because they're underprivileged. I went to school barefoot in the snow and ice, [but] I didn't shoot a policeman. I didn't hold up any store. You commit [crime] because of sin in your life...
...soil. As a stand-in for St. Christopher, the bearer of the young Christ, Tiffauges must carry Tournier's most cumbersome load. This is the burden of innocence, the surprisingly heavy weight of the holy child, who is shouldered above the flood but also protects his carrier from sin and danger...
...Fiedler, the portrait of Shylock is proof positive that Shakespeare is antiSemitic. But is it? Shylock was a moneylender, and usury was long held by Christians to be a horrific sin. In deed, Jews entered the field by default rather than design. Is the Mafia loan shark or the friendly neighborhood bank really less intent than Shylock on getting its pound of flesh? In addition, in the matter of both women and Jews, one should always remember that Shakespeare's world was the world of Christendom. A mind steeped in the Christian tradition had to be wedded...
Josie, with the power invested in her part by O'Neill's personal anguish, gives him the forgiveness he so desperately seeks and allows him to sleep on her breast until the dawn, beautifully lit, glows with Jim's new-found peace. Absolved of his sin and thus freed from torturous guilt, he leaves Josie forever, able to die as he has died spiritually long before. The walking ghost passing from night to dawn is a familiar figure in O'Neill's work, but nowhere is he so effective a presence as in Moon for the Misbegotten...
...revealed what Garner Ted's sin was, but even unfriendly sources now doubt that it was some moral transgression like adultery. Some speculate that it was a disagreement with his father on a few of the W.C.G.'s more arcane beliefs. Others suggest that Garner Ted all along wanted to switch his shows from documentary format to more direct preaching and that he has actually won the battle with his father...