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Jiang distinguishes three Dantes for reading the poem: the protagonist inside the journey, the historical Dante, and Dante the writer or poet.
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Protagonist
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Jiang emphasizes that the Divine Comedy's main protagonist is a common man, Dante, rather than an exalted mythic hero.
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"...thing. Okay. These are not the same people. There is the protagonist. There is the historical Dante and there's the writer, the poet. Okay...."
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"...Crime and Punishment. So, in the book Crime and Punishment, the protagonist wants to become a superhuman."
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"...causes particularly for civilians. U.S. soldiers are typically cast as noble protagonists while those non -U.S. peoples deemed enemies of America are constantly stereotyped."
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"...not talking to you. You know, you're not connecting with their protagonists. And I didn't really care about menopause. I really didn't care about..."
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"...it away. He, in World War I, the main character, the protagonist, he has an injury where he can't have sex because, uh, his..."
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"...in the new new Atlantis which is like a novel the protagonist he ends up in the honor island where they"
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"...the divine comedy okay virgil is the guide the narrator the protagonist of the divine comedy what happens is that we start off with..."
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"...their actions. So they see themselves as the main character, the protagonist, in a novel that they are writing."
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"...competitions. There'd be two competitors, okay? And they were called the protagonist, okay? And antagonist. So today, we know that protagonist means the hero..."
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"...of Dionysus hoping to win first place, right? To be the protagonist, to win first place. But most of the times he lost because..."
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