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Jiang reads Ugolino through Achilles: both redirect guilt and self-hatred onto another body instead of accepting the betrayal that came from their own choices.
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Betrayal
For Jiang, betrayal ultimately makes the betrayer betray everyone, including family, and produces eternal self-hatred.
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For Jiang, betrayal ultimately makes the betrayer betray everyone, including family, and produces eternal self-hatred.
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Jiang interprets the story to mean that kindness from the wealthy is read as stupidity and invites plotting.
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Da Vinci's Last Supper forces investigation because Judas is not obviously isolated; the viewer must read faces, hands, light, coins, and bodily tension to discover betrayal.
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Jiang says David feared Abner because Abner betrayed Saul and because David himself had betrayed Saul; David recognized in Abner the same ambition that brought him to power.
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"an analogy to achilles mutually in the body of hector right remember in the um iliad achilles kills hector in a battle and at..."
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"...know, he's always engaged in power politics. He's always engaging in betrayal, including betrayal of his own people in Pisa. Eventually, the people of..."
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"...eats his own children. Okay. And that's a metaphor for what betrayal is. Because when you betray someone, you're canonizing that person's soul. Okay...."
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"Okay, so he's very rich. He's very generous to people. And then he's asking himself, Are they really my friends? Or are they being..."
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"He went to his neighbor who was also wealthy, but they had never had close relations. He asked him what his advice might be...."
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"that Jew replied that it was to test those who really loved him that he did it, and that I wanted to see if..."
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"So if you're very wealthy and you're nice to people, they'll think you're stupid and naive, and they'll plot against you. Okay? That's the..."
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"It's much too thin, right? So what your eye believes is this table is expanding outwards. And so you are part of this picture...."
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"if you look at previous medieval Christian art okay below first of all it's much more static it's much more organized there's not that..."
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"stands out from the rest and so that signals him as the betrayer but in da Vinci's work it's not obvious who is the..."
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"...eyes um the man who is who ultimately responsible for the betrayal is judas iscariot and you can see how dante subliminally sorry sub..."
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"had to kill Abner because he was ordered to by David right now why would David want Abner to be killed because in his..."
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