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Often appears with: crime and punishment · self-condemnation · religious pollution · religious persecution and toleration · mr. brownlow · monks disguise · missing money · incest and kin-marriage · funeral rites and burial · forgiveness ritual · exile, wandering, and banishment · equity, mercy, and pardon
Usually: speech or oration (2) · confronting death (2) · indignation (2) · dialogue (1) · grief and loss (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1) · praise (1) · resignation (1)
Peter weakly calls Nikíta and asks forgiveness; Nikíta replies evasively but weeps, and afterwards Anísya confronts him about the missing hidden money under the floor, fearing Martha’s arrival.
Let me sit here a bit for the last time. The air's so stuffy inside. Oh, how bad I feel! Oh, my heart's burning.... Oh, if death would only come. MATRYÓNA. If God don't take a soul, the soul can't go out. Death and life are in God's will, Peter Ignátitch. You can't be sure of death either. Maybe you'll recover yet. There was a man in our village just like that, at the very point of death ... PETER. No, I feel I sha…
Mr. Brownlow confronts Edward Leeford (Monks in disguise), explaining that his past connection and remorse move him to treat the man gently, and pressing the issue of Leeford’s forgotten marriage and name.
“This is pretty treatment, sir,” said Monks, throwing down his hat and cloak, “from my father’s oldest friend.” “It is because I was your father’s oldest friend, young man,” returned Mr. Brownlow; “it is because the hopes and wishes of young and happy years were bound up with him, and that fair creature of his blood and kindred who rejoined her God in youth, and left me here a solitary, lonely man: it is because he …
Oedipus, blind and condemned by his own decree, refuses to debate his punishment, curses his forced exile and incestuous fate, and begs Creon either to hide, kill, or banish him while claiming responsibility for the guilt.
CHORUS. I cannot say that thou hast counseled well, For thou wert better dead than living blind. OEDIPUS. What’s done was well done. Thou canst never shake My firm belief. A truce to argument. For, had I sight, I know not with what eyes I could have met my father in the shades, Or my poor mother, since against the twain I sinned, a sin no gallows could atone. Aye, but, ye say, the sight of children joys A parent’s e…