the Lord

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The Lord is a powerful and tyrannical feudal noble whose cruel authority drives the tragic events in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story "Hell Screen."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf antagonist
feudal lord
fictional character
abuses Yoshihide’s daughter
appearsIn Hell Screen NERFINISHED
causes death of Yoshihide’s daughter
suffering of Yoshihide
commissioned the hell screen painting NERFINISHED
commissionedWorkFrom Yoshihide NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Japan (fictional setting) NERFINISHED
createdBy Ryūnosuke Akutagawa NERFINISHED
exercisesPowerOver Yoshihide NERFINISHED
Yoshihide’s daughter
his retainers
firstPublishedIn 1918 (year Hell Screen was first published)
governs his domain
hasPersonalityTrait authoritarian
cruel
manipulative
sadistic
tyrannical
indirectlyCauses suicide of Yoshihide
literaryGenreContext Japanese modernist short fiction
motivatedBy aesthetic curiosity about hell
desire to display power
narrativeRole drives the tragic events of the story
occupation daimyo
settingTimePeriod medieval Japan (fictionalized)
socialRank noble
uses fear to maintain control

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Hell Screen antagonist the Lord