... "tragedy,"" then, in their mutual suggestion that identity, as codified by the law and verified in its judgments of innocence or guilt, is both a set of comforting fictions fostering the illusion of social control and an imprisoning reality. The legal system depends on categorization, the creation of artificial boundaries between the individual and the group, master and slave, the free and the not free, those who are pardoned and those who are punished ... for his actions, Tom is more sadistic than his "assumed- FFV forebears (who at least present a veneer of civility) with no cause oth...

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