An Essay On Comedy, And the Uses of the Comic Spirit
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That is thecomic question of the Misanthrope. Why will he not continue to mix withthe world smoothly, appeased by the flattery of her secret and reallysincere preference of him, and taking his revenge in satire of it, as shedoes from her own not very lofty standard, and will by and by do from hismore exalted one? Celimene is worldliness: Alceste is unworldliness. It does not quiteimply unselfishness; and that is perceived by her shrewd head. Still heis a very uncommon figure in her circle, and ...she esteems him, _l'hommeaux rubans verts_, 'who sometimes diverts but more often horribly vexesher, ' as she can say of him when her satirical tongue is on the run. Unhappily the soul of truth in him, which wins her esteem, refuses to betamed, or silent, or unsuspicious, and is the perpetual obstacle to theirgood accord. He is that melancholy person, the critic of everybody savehimself; intensely sensitive to the faults of others, wounded by them; inlove with his own indubitable honesty, and with his ideal of the simplerform of life befitting it: qualities which constitute the satirist.
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