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Trickery
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Trickery
Bunsby, Captain Jack
trapped into marriage by landlady. [Br. Lit.: Dombey and Son]
Camacho
cheated of bride after lavish wedding preparations. [Span. Lit.: Don Quixote]
Delilah
tricks Samson into revealing secret of his strength. [O.T.: Judges 16:6–21]
gerrymander
political chicanery aimed at acquiring votes. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 199]
Gibeonites
obtained treaty with Joshua under false pretenses. [O.T.: Joshua 9:3–15]
Hippomenes
outraced Atalanta by tossing golden apples to distract her. [Gk. Myth.: Bulfinch]
Jacob
through guile, obtained blessing intended for Esau. [O.T.: Genesis 27:18–29]
Joseph’s coat
dipped in the blood of a kid and shown to Jacob as proof of Joseph’s death. [O.T.: Gen. 37:31-33]
Laban
substitutes Leah for Rachel on Jacob’s wedding night. [O.T.: Genesis 29:16-26]
Loge (Loki)
enables Wotan to overpower Alberich, gain Rhinegold. [Ger. Opera: Wagner, Das Rheingold, Westerman, 232]
Malatesta
schemes outwit miser; enable young lovers to wed. [Ital. Opera: Donizetti, Don Pasquale, Westerman, 123–124]
Rebekah
encouraged son Jacob to deceive father for blessing. [O.T.: Genesis 27:5–17]
Serpina
dupes bachelor employer into marrying her. [Ital. Opera: Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona, Westerman, 61]


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Explicitly thematised by this novel then is the recognition of identity as a series of performances, imageries, and sustained trickeries.
He gave us a comprehensive analysis of the resentment against what is unachievable for certain persons and groups and how it functions in the violence directed at innocents and in trickeries and blackmails that suffuse terrorism today.
With equal ability, this poet also uses humor and irony as he moves forward and backward through generations, addressing religion, class distinctions, government trickeries and lies.
 
 
 
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