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Bromwich says Macbeth is a comparatively rare Shakespeare play with a strong unity of action that is fused to character portraiture.
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Character
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...do have strong unity of action and it's welded together with character, a portrait of character that is really brought out by the nature..."
Key Notes
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Bromwich uses Heraclitus and Henry James to argue that character and incident determine one another, so fate is disclosed through action.
diagnosis
Jiang rejects a charitable reading of Dante's mood and instead characterizes Dante as too proud and people-hungry for the answer to be simple gratitude toward his admirers.
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A second student shifts the frame from external judgment to self-redemption, asking how the cheater can return to the self he was before the betrayal.
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The class's concrete answer to Jiang is that redemption would mean a changed character sustained over time, shown by not cheating again because one cannot go back and undo the original act.
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Jiang argues that actions alter character: committing sin does not simply produce regret, but tends to generate rationalization and repetition until the sin consumes the person.
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Jiang defines arete as virtue, excellence, character, or the special quality one excels at.
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Iliad characters are treated as living, breathing persons whose speeches reveal memories, origins, desires, and futures rather than as merely fictional figures.
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"...do have strong unity of action and it's welded together with character, a portrait of character that is really brought out by the nature..."
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"...just reminding you of the aphorism which we have from Heraclitus. Character is fate. The Greek of it is ethos, is the daimon, both..."
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"Incident coming to a sharp emphasis in the form of character. And what is incident but the illustration of character? I'm going to concentrate..."
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"Yes, because he's left his fans behind, but he's happy that he had fans."
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"Yeah. Again, you're so generous with Dante. No. Big, big, big, like, like Dante is a really proud people person. Yes. Uh, yeah. That's..."
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"I think a better way of framing it is, uh, whoever that cheats, right? The wife or the husband in this case, if the..."
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"I understand. I understand what I'm saying. Like, can you give me the concrete thing you can do to redeem yourself?"
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"Well, you'd change your character and then you would gain trust by that change character. So someone who cheats at 18, maybe they don't..."
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"...really hard for us to appreciate, but our actions change our character. You understand if you commit sin, it's not like, oh, you feel..."
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"...erite. The second is eudaimonia. So, erite means virtue, excellence, or character. It's something that makes you special, what you excel at. And traditionally,..."
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"...as I keep on discussing when we read the Iliad each character is a real person okay each character has a living present and..."
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"...commit catharsis what happens is that you now connect with the character itself so the character now lives in you and you live in..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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Uberboyo pushes Jiang from geopolitics into demography, soft power, religion, bureaucracy, and aging.
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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