He argues that "before deciding what is wrong and what is right
A ter proclaiming his hatred of Nature's indi1⁄2ference, this character complains that personal death has been replaced by "an anonymous cheapened death which we could dole out to entire nations on a mathematical basis." He argues that "before deciding what is wrong and what is right we must  rst  nd out what we are," illustrating his point with a story about how his cultured tailor recently swallowed the beating heart of a man from Switzerland. This character says he learned "this is a world of bodies" during a period of imprisonment when he discovered that the "cells of the inner self are worse than the deepest stone dungeon." He recalls how he vomited at the sacking of a Carmelite convent in a speech punctuated by his asthmatic gasps as he is whipped. At the end of the play, he stands on his chair and laughs triumphantly as Coulmier ("COOL"-myay) orders the nurses to brutally beat the asylum inmates. For 10 points, name this man who stages the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat in a play by Peter Weiss ("VICE").
A ter proclaiming his hatred of Nature's indi1⁄2ference, this character complains that personal death has been replaced by "an anonymous cheapened death which we could dole out to entire nations on a mathematical basis."
the Marquis de Sade [or Donatien Alphonse François de Sade]