Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus one is unavoidably engaged by the specifically "Negro" aspects of the story: Jim's sister's speeches about "fighting for our race;" Jim's inner torment over being the only Negro in his law school class; Ella's shame at having married a Negro. O'Neill's basic theme, the passionately destructive relationship between Ella and Jim, cannot help but be obscured by the incidental racial questions...
...Link is a bitter, anguished inspection of what Strindberg believed to be the inevitable sordidness of a basic human institution--marriage. Written when the playwright was experiencing perhaps the climax of the unhappiness and torment that plagued his life, the script at times writhes in agonized protest of both human and natural restrictions and institutions...
...body and a tiny soul. The man is a mill-town tough (Richard Harris) who becomes a professional rugby player. Big and strong and cunning, he soon becomes a star, and as a star he has everything a body could want: money, women, fame. But his soul is in torment because it cannot have the love of the woman he lives with (Rachel Roberts). He gives her expensive dinners and expensive furs. She doesn't really want them. What she wants is the love of another human being, and this he cannot give her-at best, he can give...
...succession of fell females fall for Harry, it looks as if Feiffer is merely having a little fun at the expense of U.S. preoccupation with self-preoccupation. But Harry soon proves to be an innocent Candide ripe for torment on the low road to worldly wisdom. What blights Harry's cheerful narcissism is the warped love of a good woman. Her message: Harry must make a break through to other people. "Give, give, give," she chants...
...perhaps a measure of comfort in the notion that the disease of faith may after all turn out to be incurable. But it is a far less positive hope of heaven even than that of earlier Greene characters, who often tried to see in their own aridity and torment a sign of God's pursuing love...