Editing Debt relief (section)

==In art==

Debt relief plays a significant role in some artworks. In the play ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]], {{circa|1598}}, the heroine pleads for debt relief (forgiveness) on grounds of Christian [[mercy]]. In the 1900 novel ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]],'' a primary [[Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|political interpretation]] is that it treats [[free silver]], which engenders [[inflation]] and hence reduces debts. In the 1999 film ''[[Fight Club]]'' (but not [[Fight Club (novel)|the novel on which it is based]]), the climactic event is the destruction of credit card records, dramatized as the destruction of skyscrapers, which allows for debt relief. The television series ''[[Mr. Robot]]'' (2015–2019), follows a group of hackers whose main mission is to cancel all debts by taking down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp.