Word: fatalism
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...mourn. There are Quentin's two wives, both of whom finally find him "cold and remote." The first, Louise, is Miller's first wife, Mary Grace Slattery. The second is Maggie, a switchboard operator who becomes a celebrated performer only to succumb to sexual obsessions, hysteria, drink, and fatal sleeping-pills--Marilyn Monroe, of course. Quentin's third big love is Holga, an archaeologist from Salzburg who helps Quentin to confront the Nazis' genocide camps (twice she states, "No-one they [the Nazis] didn't kill can be innocent again," and Quentin muses, "No man lives who would not rather...
...original American Puritans understood passion as well as human frailty: in Plymouth in the 1670s, while ordinary fornicators were fined ?10, those who were engaged had to pay only half the fine. But a fatal fact about Puritanism, which led to its ever-increasing narrowness and decline, was its conviction that virtue could be legislated by the community, that human perfection could be organized on earth...
...Mexico to get a divorce from her estranged husband and to marry the man who has loved her for years. Blomberg, the woman and her intended husband travel by day coach from Boston to Mexico City. The night after they get there, the girl suffers a final, fatal heart attack...
...assumption of infallibility is unacceptable because occasional small errors in Rowse's text challenge us to question his larger statements: "Not being a man of action," he writes, "Hamlet's first thought on receiving the fatal injunction [the ghost's command to kill his uncle] is suicide...
These two lines, of course, are spoken before Hamlet has received "the fatal injunction" and his first thoughts when he does receive it contain no reference to suicide. This error in turn casts doubt on the assumption that "Hamlet is not a man of action" and hurts Rowse's evaluation of the play...