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What did you want to happen to Macheath?
Some students may be surprised to realize they were rooting for Macheath, no matter how terrible a person he is. This is an example of the alienation effect manifested—what does it mean to realize that you're rooting for someone who is, objectively, a terrible person, someone who's committed scores of murders, rapes, and robberies and clearly feels no regret, someone who we've seen manipulate person after person and dismiss his closest friends in the hope of saving himself? What else do you recognize when you recognize that?
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Did Polly and Lucy really forgive each other?
Some may believe that they did, and that they came to...
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