“nothing can calm it, since its goal is beyond all that it can attain. Reality seems valueless in comparison to the dream of the fevered imagination”
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Card 17
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“contemporary literature is corrupt and popular theatre artistically bankrupt”
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Card 18
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“a literary manifesto”
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Card 19
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the last act “forms the great moral of the play” and shows the “invariable experience of mankind”
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Card 20
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“forc’d from it in the fifth”
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Card 21
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“A wholly material city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world’s unconscious”
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Card 22
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negative catalogue
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Card 23
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the courts are inadequate, and the punishment they give is purely mechanical since crime “will lead to success that can no longer contain itself to any limits”
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Card 24
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Volpone does not “ineffectually” depend on Mosca completely. The first scene demonstrates that his “inactive wits have already carried him high in the financial world”
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Card 25
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“Virtue does not pay indefinitely” since it could lead to the good being victimised, usually happens in a tragedy.
