The key, tainted with mysteriously fresh blood, betrays her disobedience, and Bluebeard condemns her to join his other spouses.
Saikaku seldom showed much sympathy for the prostitutes he described, but the chief dramatist of the time, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, wrote his best plays about unhappy women, driven by poverty into their lives as prostitutes, whose only release from the sordid world in which they were condemned to dwell came when they joined their lovers in double suicides.
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees warned that the decision "may deprive tens of thousands of people of nationality," while the regional alliance of Caribbean nations, which the Dominican Republic has sought to join, condemned how masses of people are "being plunged into a constitutional, legal and administrative vacuum".
As opposition leader, he condemned Canada's decision not to join America's invasion of Iraq.
"By allying himself with the Khmer Rouge and urging his countrymen to join, Sihanouk condemned his people to damnation," said the historian Joel Brinkley in his book, "Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land".
The thing about competitive victimhood, a favorite Middle Eastern pastime, is that it condemns the children of today to join the long list of the dead.
Mr. Rumsfeld issued a pointed call to Iraqis to join in condemning Mr. Sadr, and he renewed Mr. Bush's vow not to be driven out of Iraq by what Mr. Rumsfeld called "a group of thugs".
That seems a distinct probability in the circumstances, with the presidents of the Italian Football Federation, Serie A, the Players Associationn and the national Olympic Committee all quick to join in condemning events on Sunday.
In the middle of an intense political campaign, Islamists and nationalists are denouncing what they see as undue interference in Indonesia's internal affairs, and presidential candidates are expected to join in condemning the American pressure.
