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The Roman imperative that redirects Aeneas from personal rage, death, or mercy toward Rome's future.
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The Roman imperative that redirects Aeneas from personal rage, death, or mercy toward Rome's future.
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Aeneas' role is service to destiny and hierarchy rather than mutual equality in a relationship.
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Moving closer to Asha creates a duty to help other people move closer, so the struggle itself gives meaning and purpose to the universe.
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He connects Augustine's suspicion of love to Virgil's Aeneid: Dido is destroyed by love, while Aeneas is honored because he abandons love for divine duty.
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Aeneas' rage at Helen and desire to die with Troy are interrupted by divine and familial signs that redirect him to duty: leave Helen, return to family, and preserve the son who will found a great empire.
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Jiang reads Creusa's disappearance or death as Virgil's model of the 'good wife': she removes herself so Aeneas can embrace Rome's future and avoid dishonor.
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The Aeneid's final duel tests mercy against duty: Aeneas considers forgiving Turnus, sees the belt taken from his dead friend, and kills him.
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Aeneas' completed transformation is that the gods no longer have to stop or redirect him; he recognizes killing Turnus as his duty and becomes the embodiment of piety and duty.
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"...did she kill herself? She killed herself because it is her duty not to burden her husband. Because her husband is destined for great..."
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"...end point guess what everyone else hasn't so you have a duty now to help other people okay does that make sense so if..."
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"...because he's a pious man, abandoned his love and did his duty. So he was honored by the gods. But Ditto became consumed by..."
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"...committing suicide. He's like, okay, now I understand. It is my duty to save my son and my family. So he carries his father..."
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"He wants to show mercy. He's like, I've beaten you. You're no longer a threat. I can show some forgiveness, okay? I can be..."
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"She's a whore. She's a slut. If she just did her duty, if she just stayed at home where she was supposed to be,..."
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"He goes back and he's discovered that his wife has killed herself. Why? Because she knows that in this new world that they're going..."
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"And that's why Hannibal went to attack Rome, okay? Again, this is that subtle propaganda. Aeneas ends up in Italy, like he's supposed to...."
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"...wanted to show mercy to Churnus and he recognized, no, my duty is to kill this guy. You understand? Okay? So Aeneas has become..."
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"...So, you have Virgil's Iliad, which focuses on the importance of duty. Okay? Duty. Then you have St. Augustine's Confessions. And in his book,..."
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"...it makes it no better for me. Without loving me, from duty, he'll be good and kind to me. Without what I want, that's..."
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"...trying to seek happiness and passion, he just submits himself to duty and to tradition. He marries a woman he loves, and then he..."
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