Anglia, 1917, Vol. 41

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Anglia, 1917, Vol. 41: Zeitschrift für Englische PhilologieGewifs. Es ist aber ganz verfehlt, die weibliche psyche immer als ein fremdes, unheimliches wesen zu betrachten, das sich plötzlich in einen werwolf verwandeln könne. In der männlichen seele sind auch abgrunde, woran s'cheiterte sonst immer die Hamletpsychologie? Mann und weib folgen be stimmten psychologischen gesetzen, die fiir die gattung mensch gelten, und auch die weibliche seelentätigkeit hat keine sonder gesetze, die bisher noch unbekannt geblieben wären. Hier in Lady Anne haben wir überdies nicht einmal ein solches kompliziertes phänomen, im gegenteil, dutzendware. Lady Anne is just one of those women whom we see walking in crowds through the drawing-rooms of the world. The puppets of habit, the fools of fortune, without any particular inclina tion for vice or any steady principle for virtue, whose actions are inspired by vanity not affection, and regulated by opinion not by conscience: who are good while there is no temptation to be otherwise and ready victims of the first soliciting to evil. Cressida is another modification of vanity, weakness and falsehood drawn in stronger colours. The world contains many Lady Annes and Cressidas, polished and refined externally whom chance and vanity keep right, whom chance and vanity lead wrong just as it may happen. When we read in history of the enormities of certain women, perfect scarecrows and ogresses, we can safely hug ourselves in our secure virtue and thank God that we are not as others are: but the wicked women in Shakespeare are portrayed with such perfect consistency and truth that they leave us no such resource, they frighten us.into re¿ection, they make us believe and tremble. 1)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.