Death, disease and heredity
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- Death, Disease and Heredity
- T never wavers from his conviction that moral as well as physical qualities can be inherited - inheritance seems to deny the individual of any possibility of self transformation
- "All your father's irresponsible ways...no morals"
- Dr Rank is surprisingly forgiving. The anger he feels is at the injustice of hereditary disease.
- "gay subaltern life" "every single family must be suffering some cruel retribution"
- When Rank talks to Nora about his love he uses the past tense suggesting his death
- "loved you"
- T and Rank use metaphor of corrupt behaviour as moral sickness
- "Morally depraved"
- T instructs N about lying mothers presumably reinforcing the work of hereditary - Rank talks about individuals to whom society should act with little compassion
- "all juvenile delinquents come from homes where the mother is dishonest", "moral corruption"
- K's redemption by Mrs Linde tells us the morally sick can be cured
- "yet surely it's the sick who most need to be brought in"
- There are startling graphic images of death in the play
- "cold, clack water...bloated, hairless..." "rotting up there in the churchyard"
- T never wavers from his conviction that moral as well as physical qualities can be inherited - inheritance seems to deny the individual of any possibility of self transformation
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