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Judge of hell whose warning Jiang interprets as a clue against trusting Virgil.
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Judge of hell whose warning Jiang interprets as a clue against trusting Virgil.
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Minos's warning to be careful whom Dante trusts only makes sense, in Jiang's reading, as a warning not to trust Virgil.
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Virgil's interruption of Minos confirms the warning because he silences the figure who is trying to alert Dante.
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Jiang interprets Minos's warning to Dante about whom to trust as specifically implying that Dante should not trust Virgil.
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"...space but grief more great, that goads to weeping. There dreadful Mino stands, gnashing his teeth, examining the sins of those who enter. He..."
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"...very interesting passage that again makes us question things. Okay? So Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on..."
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"Do not attempt to block his fated path. Our passage has been willed above, where one can do what he has willed and ask..."
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"...and ask no more. I represent a higher power than you, Minos. All right? So again, this is questioning the reliability of narrator. What's..."
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"...space but grief more great that goads to weeping their dreadful Mino stands gnashing his teeth examining the sins of the world and the..."
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"...interesting passage that again makes us question things, okay? Okay, so Minos, who's basically deciding which level of hell you go to based on..."
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"...no more. We are, I represent a higher power than you, Minos, all right? So again, this is questioning the reliability of the narrator...."
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"...broken for us. This man's alive and I'm not bound by Minos. But I am from the circle where the chastised eyes of your..."
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"...broken for us this man's alive and I'm not bound by minos but I am from the circle where the chaste eyes of your..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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