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Dante naming Dido is an act of rebellion against Virgil as father, guide, and teacher because Dante refuses to inherit Virgil's erasure.
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Rebellion
Dante naming Dido is an act of rebellion against Virgil as father, guide, and teacher because Dante refuses to inherit Virgil's erasure.
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Jiang says Dante naming Dido is an act of rebellion against Virgil and a way to resurrect Dido in memory.
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The bully’s hubris grows from obedience; he raises taxes and pays his own friends less, producing latent dissatisfaction before the new kid appears.
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The new kid creates rebellion because other students and even the bully’s allies begin to see alternative alliances once someone refuses the cafeteria rules.
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Jiang characterizes Achilles as rebellious, imaginative, boundary-testing, and vivid in imagination from childhood onward.
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Rome had to kill Jesus because he inverted the natural order: slaves could be spiritually free while Romans were cursed by power.
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The Tohil rebellion story teaches that humans who rebel against the gods are destroyed, spared only as obedient servants, and therefore must submit to divine order.
diagnosis
Mongol contempt for local culture, especially in Yuan China, made rule unstable and contributed to Chinese rebellion.
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"My first words. Poet, I should willingly speak with those two who go together there and seem so lightly carried by the wind. And..."
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"...All right? And what this really is, is an act of rebellion. Because Dante acknowledges Virgil as his father, as his guide, as his..."
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"...all right? And what this really is, is an act of rebellion. Because Darnay acknowledges Virgil as his father, as his guide, as his..."
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"So I know who Dido is, I know what Virgil did, and I want to name her. I want to name her in order..."
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"He's keeping everyone safe. So yeah, I pay a dollar, but it's not that much money. And we're all safe, so that we can..."
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"have more money because he wants to buy a car, or he wants to go to Paris for the summer. Okay? Does that make..."
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"...and the values of this cafeteria, now there's dissent. Now there's rebellion going on. Okay? And different people are talking to him and trying..."
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"Okay? And then one day, the bully's friend comes over and says, You know what? You're a whip. And the new kid finally says,..."
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"So together we've read the first half of the Iliad and today I gave you an assignment, right? So I have three questions for..."
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"He's always testing boundaries. He has a very vivid imagination. And the last question is, imagine Achilles today. What would he be doing, okay?..."
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"then that will save the world okay that is a central message of jesus all right any questions before we look at the evidence..."
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"is the romans at the top and the slaves at the very bottom and jesus is like no it's the opposite say it's at..."
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