Word: humanation
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Here Thoas, King of Tauris, pays his suit to Iphigenie, but his attentions are repelled. The king, angered at being rejected, orders her, as priestess of the temple, to execute as human sacrifice, and for that purpose hands over two strangers to her, whom he has found on the seashore...
...game between the Harvard and the Yale, Whist Clubs has been set for March 31, and will be played at Cambridge. The representatives of last year's team still in College are N. S. Kelly 2L., A. J. Halle 2L. and M. Human 2L. Eight men will be on each side. During the five years that the Harvard Whist Club has been playing Yale, Harvard has won every game. Last year Yale was defeated by four tricks. This year the Whist Club has lost two games, one to Medford, the other to the Cavendish Whist Club. It has defeated...
Primarily, the work is a satire upon Norwegian character, bringing out its lack of personality and vacillating half-heartedness, but the poet went beyond the limits of his original conception, and gave to the world the picture of a misguided human soul, in which people of every nation may see themselves more or less prefigured...
...that it blends a lofty faith in the moralities with psychological truth of character. "Iphigenie" is not, however, a realistic play in the sense of the extreme modern school, but it is profoundly realistic in the deeper sense in which Shakspere is realistic, by its faithful reproduction of human passions and of the interplay of human motives...
...plays were for the time forgotten in England, Hamlet continued to be played. This play, standing as it does among the plays of the tragic period, is the manifestation of some great grief which has entered Shakspere's life at this time. It represents also the impression which human tragedy made on his mind...