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Heartlessness

See also Cruelty, Ruthlessness.

Chester, Sir John

towards son’s love affair. [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge]

Clare, Angel

cannot forgive Tess’s past. [Br. Lit.: Tess of the D’Urbervilles]

Estella

trained by Miss Havisham to take advantage of men. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations]

Ettarre

encourages knight’s love to gain his tournament prize. [Br. Lit.: Idylls of the King, “Pelleas and Ettarre”]

Gabler, Hedda

ruthlessly debases and cruelly deceives a former lover, driving him to suicide. [Swed. Drama: Isben Hedda Gabler]

Gerard, Lieutenant Philip

unfeeling in singleminded pursuit of Kimble. [TV: “The Fugitive” in Terrace, I, 290]

Gessler

sentenced Tell to shoot apple off son’s head. [Swiss Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1066; Ital. Opera: Rossini, Wilhelm Tell]

Hatto

for hardheartedness to poor during famine, eaten by mice. [Ger. Legend: LLEI, I: 290]

Infanta

laughs at the death of the little Dwarf who can no longer dance for her. [Br. Lit.: Oscar Wilde “The Birthday of the Infanta”]

Javert

coldhearted in his relentless pursuit of Valjean. [Fr. Lit.: Les Misérables]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

cruel and heartless lady. [Br. Lit.: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” in Walsh Modern, 51]

Sanine

has no pity for others’ sufferings. [Russ. Lit.: Magill III, 921]

Turandot

in revenge for dishonor to ancestor. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Turandot, Westerman, 368]