Revenge and retribution.
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Hamlet’s tragic flaw is not hesitation, “To be or not to be” is not about suicide – and it matters!!
Different critics have talked about Hamlet's tragic flaw in different ways, but what most of them boil down to is dithering. Coleridge talks about "the lingering…
John Gray on the decline of violence
John Gray argues in The Guardian that Pinker's got his sums all wrong and there has been no decline in violence.…
The Civilizing Process and the Decline of Violence
THE DEBATE over whether humanity is becoming less violent has its beginnings in Ted Robert Gurr's 1982 article "Historical trends in violent crime : a critical review of the evidence" (in Tonry and Morris, eds, Crime and Justice : an Annual Review of Research). Several other studies, mainly based on homicide data from Scandinavia and…