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Arts Commentary: The “Maleficent” Syndrome — Making the Villain the Hero
Perhaps because real life is so painful, so tragic, we cannot bear to see evil in full flight. Evil must be relative, it must fly on wings of rationale, on a broomstick of retribution.
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