... would be the ruin of any man who used his profits in such frivolity. At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance ... only providing an idyllic depiction of independent America, the language used also suggests a need for persuasion. The relentless list of anti-royal complaints, repetitively beginning He '...

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... works such as Hamlet and Othello. He is the one that people instinctively think of when they hear the term "Revenge Tragedy". Shakespearean characters such as Iago and Richard III are the ones who are primarily envisioned when pondering the essence and embodiment of a true Machiavellian villain--as opposed to Lorenzo of The Spanish Tragedy, who, quite frankly, many probably ... ...

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