Author, U: Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 106

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Author, U: Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 106

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Excerpt from Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 106: December, 1902

Regan was so much more of a Gadarean sow than her elder sister as to be, for all we know, incapable of such passion as flames out in Goneril at the thought of foreign banners spread in a noiseless land. Beast and she-devil as she is, she rises in that instant to the level of an unclean and a criminal Joan of Arc. Her advocate might also invoke as an extenuating circumstance the fact that she poisoned Regan.

Frangois-victor Hugo, the author of the best and fullest commentary ever written on the text of which he gave us the most wonderful and masterly of all imaginable translations, has perhaps un wittingly enforced and amplified the re mark of Coleridge on the difference be tween the criminality of the one man chosen by chance and predestined by na ture as the proper paramour of either Sis ter and the monstrosity of the creatures who felt towards him as women feel tow ards the men they, love. Edmund is not a more true-born child of hell than a true born son of his father Goneril and Regan are legitimate daughters of the pit; the man who excites in them such emotion as in such as they are may pass as the substitute for love is but a half blooded fellow from the infernal as well as the human point of view. His last wish is to undo the last and most mon strous of his crimes.* Such a wish would have been impossible to either of the sis ters by whom he can boast with his dying breath that Edmund was beloved.

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