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He says the characters revealed through that process feel like real people talking both to him and among themselves independently.
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Characters
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Bromwich says Shakespeare gives a whole story of ambition deepened by the friction of characters rubbing against one another, while Dante gives the vice through shorthand background incidents, guilt, and punishment inside epic architecture.
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A great book contains characters who become real to the reader and make the world more real to the reader.
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"at these characters like i don't know these people i've never met these people and they feel real to me but knowing that but..."
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"...a whole story and the story is deepened by the way characters rub up against each other the friction of characters that's a difference..."
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"...him, you've never met Achilles, and Achilles is honestly a fictional character. He never existed, but he's real to you so that you're able..."
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"...what he means by that is, in a great book, the characters are different because the characters are able to hear themselves speak. Okay?..."
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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 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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