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Jiang offers his son's childhood statement about being an alien from another planet as anecdotal evidence that children may arrive with memories from prior lives.
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Children
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question
Bromwich leaves the discussion with two unresolved interpretive centers: whether foreknowledge from witches compromises responsibility, and why children matter to the play's contrast between nature and the supernatural.
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Bromwich argues that Macbeth ends with a stronger sense of restored order than King Lear, and that Macduff's family and Macbeth's childlessness help make the moral structure of that restoration felt.
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The Ugolino passage stages treachery through the starvation of children alongside the father, making the punishment unbearable not only politically but familially.
diagnosis
Jiang says Dante accepts that Ugolino himself betrayed Pisa but is morally shaken by the punishment of Ugolino's innocent sons.
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A student argues that sodomy is treated as a grave sin because it cannot produce descendants who continue creation and memory into the future.
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Another student says homosexuality in a declining society signals lack of hope in the future because it does not produce children.
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A student says immigration is brought in because a society's own culture no longer makes enough children to sustain itself.
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"yeah there is there is no way that they would have known how yeah yeah people really can't explain this uh so this is..."
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"...i'm not sure if you had a similar experience with your children but you know yeah like like no my my they're the aliens..."
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"...human agent even responsible in that case? And the second is children. Lady Macbeth says that she's given suck. So she's had a child...."
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"And Macduff's answer is very interesting answer. He has no children. So what is this about the idea of children as something deeply related..."
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"...to him I mean we're made to feel the absence of children in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth only by the planting of Macduff as..."
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"the cruel death devised for me you now shall hear and know if he has wronged me a narrow window in the eagle's tower..."
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"up front before him walandi and sismondi and la franDEY but after a brief course it seemed to me that both the father and..."
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"at that i shed no tears and all day long and through the night that followed did not answer until another sun had touched..."
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"my feet implored me father why do you not help me and there he died and just as you see me i saw the..."
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"okay so um he thinks that count you i don't just got what he deserved because he did betray pisa and the people the..."
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"the sons in prison the sons did nothing wrong first of all why why are the sins sons in prison i believe it's to..."
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"I think it's because homosexuality cannot bear children. And so in that sense, you don't have the hope for the future because you don't..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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