Word: devilish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this grotesquely ludicrous figure develops a realization of the moral bearings of the human situation in which his creators, for the paying of old grudges, have placed him; and finally, love begetting in him a soul, he renounces his precarious existence for the sake of others, and foils the devilish intent of the which and the fiend who produced him. It will be seen at once that such a change of tone between the beginning and the end, and so unexpected a call on the sympathy of the audience from a figure which at the outset was not even animate...