Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (25 page)

Libra (constellation),
24

loan sharks,
132–34
,
165

Logos,
32–33

Lord’s Prayer,
44–45

Ma’at,
25–26
,
27
,
29
,
30
,
31
,
32–33
,
34
,
39

MacDonald, George,
23
Madame Bovary
(Flaubert),
105–106

Mandela, Nelson,
159

Marlowe, Christopher. See
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

“The Masque of the Red Death” (Poe),
167

memory, and debt,
75
,
76
,
78
,
81
,
141–42
,
163

The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare),
152–58

anti-Semitism in,
155–56

and characters’ violation of religious beliefs,
156–58

mercy and justice in,
153–54
,
157–58
,
159

as Revenge Tragedy,
152
,
153
,
155–58

Shadow figures in,
152
,
155

mercy, and justice,
13
,
22–23

in
The Merchant of Venice
,
153–54
,
157–58
,
159

Micawber, Wilkins,
129–30
,
144

Michael (archangel),
33
,
34
,
40

millers,
111–12

cheating/ thievery by,
112–13
,
115
,
119
,
164

daughters of,
108
,
113–14
,
115–17

The Mill on the Floss
(Eliot),
108
,
114–19

mills,
108–11
,
119
,
164

“of the gods,”
141
,
164
,
201

miser, as stock figure,
154
.
See also
Scrooge, Ebenezer

moneylenders: Christians as,
96–97
,
144–45
,
154–55

debt slavery/oppression by,
78–79
,
92–93
,
96–97

Jews as,
145–47
,
152–58

persecution of,
143–47
,
165

punishment of,
93–94
,
97–98

and societal view of wealth,
94–99

mortgages,
8–9
,
46–47
,
83–85

Nemesis,
30
,
31
,
149

New Grub Street
(Gissing),
105

Nicholas, Saint,
55–56

9/11, terrorist attacks of,
160–61
1984
(Orwell),
65
,
66

Nulialiut,
28

The Odyssey
(Homer),
32

Olbrych, Rev. Jennie C.,
46–47

Orestes,
36–37

Original Sin,
68

The Origin of Species
(Darwin),
22

Othello
(Shakespeare),
155

Paradise Lost
(Milton),
59–60

pawnshop,
51–56
,
120

of the soul,
59–69
.
See also
pledging

payback,
161
,
163
,
165–203

for bad behaviour,
22–23

of cheaters,
19–20
,
112–13

due dates for,
166–73

and “eye for an eye,”
14
,
20–21

of oppressors/moneylenders,
57
,
118
.
See also
environment, mankind’s payment of debt to; environment, threats to; justice; revenge

Peasants’ Revolt (1381),
140–41

The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Wilde),
150–51

The Pilgrim’s Progress
(Bunyan),
103–104
,
110
,
119

The Pioneers
(Cooper),
188

pledging: of items,
51–56
,
120
,
152

of people, into slavery,
56–59
,
127

and redemption,
51
,
54
,
56
,
59
,
63
,
64
,
66
,
67–70
,
164

of souls,
59–69

and substitution/sacrifice,
63–67
,
72–74
,
179

Poppins, Mary,
23

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Joyce),
68

Precious Bane
(Webb),
59–62
,
73

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen),
18

The Prince
(Machiavelli),
134–35
,
144
,
174

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
(Hogg),
70–72

Protestant reformation,
95–96

Punch-buggy game,
13–14

reciprocal altruism,
18–19

reciprocity,
14
,
20–23
,
27–28
,
29
,
32

recordkeeping,
1
,
5
,
40
,
43
,
80
,
149

by angels,
33
,
34
,
54
,
78

by Devil,
71–72
,
74
,
78

importance/history of,
74–79

and memory,
75
,
76
,
78
,
141–42

and taxes,
77–79
,
141–42
,
143
,
146

at weighing of heart,
25–26
,
74

redemption, to pay debt,
51
,
54
,
56
,
59
,
63
,
64
,
66
,
164

and Antinomian Heresy,
69–72

by Christ,
67–69
,
141

“The Reeve’s Tale” (Chaucer),
112–13

revenge,
125–26
,
148–61
,
165

etymology of,
149–50

and forgiveness,
118
,
159–61

and Shadow figures,
151
,
159

trickle-down theory of,
117–18
,
151

Revenge Tragedy,
151–52
. See also
The Merchant of Venice

“The Ruined Maid” (Hardy),
107

sacrifice/substitution, to pay debt,
63–67
,
72–74
,
179–81