Alfred's misery was increased by his grandfather's discovery of his father's debts.
As a result, for five years its poverty and misery have increased along with its impossibly large debt burden.
THE president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is coming under growing criticism, abroad and at home, for failing to ease the plight of Gaza's 1.5m people, whose misery is increasing as Israel's siege of the tiny coastal strip grinds on.
Marx believed that this misery would increase, while at the same time the monopoly of capital would become a fetter upon production until finally "the knell of capitalist private property sounds.
It supplies more than its fair share of prejudice and hatred to the world, and the Vatican's attitude to contraception adds shamefully to human misery by increasing poverty, allowing the spread of HIV/Aids to go unchecked and contributing to climate change.
The trail from Guatemala's lasting misery and increasing violence (a credit to U.S. intervention and financial investment) as an growing source of U.S.-bound migration follows through the physical and psychological killing fields of Arizona, along the rest of the Mexico-U.S. border, and into a reigning culture of genocide denial.
John Toon's cinematography has the thick, oversaturated look of old Technicolor, and the honeyed light that usually surrounds Ms. Paltrow darkens as Plath's miseries increase.
But some countries, notably in Africa and the Middle East, have chosen not to take part in that process, and misery there has increased.
We focus on the happiness we'd get from a bigger house – only to find, once we've moved, that the misery of the increased commute outweighs the benefits.
Climate change might make people in the west poorer and cause increased misery to the very poorest in society, but it will probably take something else to wipe us out.
