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…, Edgar in a plot to kill Gloucester. Edmund then goes to Edgar and convinces him to run away. Edgar, like his father is easily deceived, and runs. Edmund’s evil trickery continues to increase in its cruelty until he commits an inconceivable crime. Edmund has…

…? His power we allow infinite: Whatever he wills is executed: But neither man nor animal are happy . . . . In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men?" With these words, Philo proceeds al fine, allegro non…

…you were between the ages five and eighteen. Circle SA for Strongly Agree, SA/D for Sometimes Agree/Disagree and SD for Strongly Disagree. 13. Argues a lot. SA SA/D SD 14. Cruel to animals. SA SA/D SD 15. Cruelty…

…, and destitute of laws, of arts, of ideas, and almost of language.[10] From this abject condition, perhaps the primitive and universal state of man, he has gradually arisen to command the animals, to fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure…

…, to be of the same nature with these virtues in the human creature? His power we allow infinite: Whatever he wills is executed: But neither man nor animal are happy . . . . In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men…

…Someone had once said, "Human nature is a mixture of the sham and the true, of kindness and cruelty, of meanness and generosity - of good and evil." In the play Macbeth, this quote is perfectly portrayed in the main characters' actions, their struggles…

…must be considered by his people merciful, and not cruel. He states that it is fine to be considered cruel, as long as his cruelty keeps the nation at peace. Machiavelli also discusses the question of whether it best to be loved than feared or feared rather…

…indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering on cruelty; which I confess hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project how well soever intended," after he has just suggested that the flesh of twelve and thirteen-year-old's be sold…

…. Come, you spirits…unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full, Of direst cruelty: Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between…

…are half comic. “We are led gradually away from this humor into an expanding horror of men driven to acts of obscene cruelty. The combination with humor and horror occurs differently in Hop Frog where cruelty and joking co-mingle. (537) To agree with Lewis…