In this play, one character remarks that gentility is like small-pox: a man may get over it, but it leaves marks.
In this play, one character remarks that gentility is like small-pox: a man may get over it, but it leaves marks. One character in this play mocks another for reading a book titled Fatal Love, and asks her to take over his sweeping duties. Another character in this play tells the story of a poor man who is sustained by a belief in a "land of righteousness" but who commits suicide after a scholar shows that there is no such land on the map. Anna, the wife of a (*) locksmith, dies from tuberculosis in this play, in which a former actor dreams of going to a sanatorium for treatment for his alcoholism. Vassilissa begs her lover to kill her husband in this play, in which Satine argues about the value of telling lies to give comfort with the old man Luka, who encourages Natasha to run away with Vaska Pepel. For 10 points, name this play about people living in the title impoverished circumstances, by Maxim Gorky.
In this play, one character remarks that gentility is like small-pox: a man may get over it, but it leaves marks.
The Lower Depths [or Na Dne]