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Georg Lukács

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(About Bosola): “his qualities and abilities are no longer part of his personality, they are things which he can “own” or “dispose of” like the various objects of the external world”

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Leah S. Marcus

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Bosola - “reluctantly parasitic”

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Frank Whigam

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Bosola suffers from a “crisis of inauthenticity”

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Irving Ribner

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it is the “nobility of the human spirit which enables man to survive and triumph in spite of such a world”
“Indestructible human spirit”

Bosola - “shaped by the specific function he is designed to perform”

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David Cecil

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“Webster does believe in the ultimate victory of virtue. The good are only defeated on the material plane. Morally they triumph. “

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T.S. Elliot

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Webster “saw the skull beneath the skin” (in the poem whispers of immortality)

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Ian Jack

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“Decadence”

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G.H. Lewes

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Webster doesn’t present people how they really are - his characters are two dimensional

“False exhibition of human nature”
“Delights the pit”