Abstract
This article analyzes the representation of evil in two plays by W. B. Yeats: The countess Cathleen (1892) and Purgatory (1939). Despite revealing different styles, the plays represent a concern with the nature of evil, salvation and damnation of the soul, and the individual’s power against the forces of history.
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This article analyzes the representation of evil in two plays by W
The plays represent a concern with the nature of evil, salvation and damnation of the soul, and the individual’s power against the forces of history
It is surely absurd to hold me “weak” or otherwise because I chose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life. (...) If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen ever come to exist
Summary
This article analyzes the representation of evil in two plays by W. SIN AND CRIME AS METAPHORS FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF EVIL IN YEATS’S THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN AND PURGATORY
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