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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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Oedipus is Jiang's example of tragedy as fate rather than simple moral guilt: in Sophocles, Jiang says Oedipus did nothing wrong, yet fate and accident still destroy him.
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"you a much better person does it make sense guys all right even crime is this arm of habits horror and all its contagion..."
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"he blinds himself and then he goes into exile okay and if you actually read the tragedy by Sophocles he did nothing wrong it..."
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"...as relatives, uncles, aunts, grandparents, tutors, servants, abuse and ignorance and innocence of children. The obvious objection that we are dealing with sexual fantasies..."
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"...he says this. So he pleaded, lost in his own great innocence, condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom. He is..."
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"...or else trusted persons such as relatives abuse the ignorance and innocence of children, okay? So he's arguing that abuse is much more common..."
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"...And it's compounded by the fact that the father in his innocence hugs and caresses his little girl. It's made worse when the father..."
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"...or else trusted persons such as relatives abuse the ignorance and innocence of children, okay? So he's arguing that abuse is much more common..."
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"...And it's compounded by the fact that the father, in his innocence, hugs and caresses his little girl. It's made worse when the father..."
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"...could no longer serve it? When he could no longer defend innocence against oppression? You have taken away my powers? Fine, take away my..."
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