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The destructive misanthrope is said to be driven by a hatred of humankind and aims at tearing it down, with violence if necessary. [7] [40] For the fugitive misanthrope, fear is the dominant emotion and leads the misanthrope to seek a secluded place in order to avoid the corrupting contact with civilization and humanity as much as possible. [7] [9]
Timon's servants are turned down, one by one, by Timon's false friends. Elsewhere, one of Alcibiades's junior officers, in a rage, kills a man in "hot blood". Alcibiades pleads with the Senate for his mercy, arguing that a crime of passion should not carry as severe a sentence as premeditated murder. The senators disagree, and, when Alcibiades ...
The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover (French: Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux; French pronunciation: [lə mizɑ̃tʁɔp u latʁabilɛːʁ amuʁø]) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by the King's Players. [1]
The dialogue Timon or The Misanthrope by Lucian is about Timon. Timon is the inspiration for the William Shakespeare play Timon of Athens. Timon is the eponym of the words Timonist, Timonism, Timonian, and Timonize. Jonathan Swift claims to maintain a different sort of misanthropy than Timon in a letter to Alexander Pope.
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Carl Panzram was born on June 28, 1891, on a farm near East Grand Forks, Minnesota, the sixth of seven children born to East Prussian immigrants Johann "John" Gottlieb Panzram and Mathilda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Panzram (née Bolduan [1]).
Colman Domingo plays one of those men, John “Divine G.” Whitfield, who’s serving a sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, hoping his name will someday be cleared.
Is it correct to include non-humans (such as Bender, the robot from Futurama) in the list of misanthropes? This seems to conflict with the very first sentence of the article, the definition of misanthropy as "a general dislike of the human race from the viewpoint of another human individual." This applies to at least Bender, Agent Smith and HK-47.