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A third student says Shakespeare shows the world on stage while Dante supplies an 'outside the cave' vision of heaven, hell, and retribution that answers theological paradoxes Shakespeare leaves unresolved.
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Retribution
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The Black Death creates a paradox for Jiang's reading because Dante's God is all-loving and merciful, yet the poem seems to promise catastrophic retribution.
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"...you need to be aware of and why there should be retribution for the wrongs"
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"so I feel like yeah Shakespeare is more like a matter of fact of what it is and Dante is more like this is..."
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"...coming they know god will have his vengeance will have his retribution okay but this again creates a paradox for us because if dante..."
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"...Hugh Cabat, criticizes his own family and demands divine justice, divine retribution for all their crimes. Second point is like, as they're climbing up..."
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"...death okay and how would they interpret the black death divine retribution divine judgment okay do you understand what happens after black dev is..."
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"...엄 Breathe that it john will be unforgettable this as divine retribution or judgment okay all right and dante knows it's coming right because..."
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"...or her drug addiction he or she belongs in jail okay retribution is this vengeance or is it love what's the difference love but..."
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"...on in foreign society to make dante uh demand divine vengeance retribution okay not not only is he a prophet telling"
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"people that he's a prophet but he's also that divine retribution is coming but he's also a messenger of god an angel who is..."
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"There will be just retribution, but you may not need to do it. There would be a divine plan for it."
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"...a very complex world and uh of course there is the retribution there is uh you know uh good and bad but we cannot..."
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"Yeah, buddy. Yeah, buddy. Do you think that China will seek retribution against Japan for the treatment of the Chinese during the Sino -Japanese..."
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