Yeats describes: "An old and foolish custom, that if a man / Be wronged, or think that he is wronged, and starve / Upon another's threshold till he die, / The common people, for all time to come, / Will raise a heavy cry against that threshold".
If Palestine cries out, or if Afghanistan calls out, If Kosovo is wronged, or Assam or Pattani is wronged, My heart stretches out to them, longing to help those in need.
"There are too many pictures now where, Act I, you meet the lovable rogue whose family is wronged, and the rest of the movie is him doing the bad guys in," he said.
Keira Knightley, in an interview taped at the New York première, seems to feel this way: "As far as the story of 'Anna Karenina,'" she says, "most people, in most adaptations — and I haven't seen all of them — have taken Anna to be the heroine, and to be the innocent, a sort of saintly creature who is wronged, by the world, by her husband, by society, by everything.
RT The Good Wife has been hailed by many critics as a post-feminist legal drama, and it many ways it is: lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother Alicia Florrick is wronged by her powerful state's attorney husband, who is caught red-handed in a sexual scandal and sent to jail (parallels with DSK are so obvious that viewers may wonder which came first: reality or fiction).
