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Jiang treats the emotional plausibility of Virgil’s jealousy as one reason the Comedy gives readers insight into themselves and ordinary human nature.
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Self Knowledge
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "that you're my fan or upset yeah yeah it's just human nature okay and that's why the line comedy is something that resonates with..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "that you're my fan or upset yeah yeah it's just human nature okay and that's why the line comedy is something that resonates with..."
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Bromwich treats Claudius's failed prayer as proof that ambition can know exactly what it has done and still remain blocked from genuine self-knowledge or repentance.
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Jiang turns the scene into a psychological question by asking whether Virgil knowingly lies or speaks from a distorted self-understanding despite direct contrary evidence.
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The student's answer to Fucci's rage is that a thief may feel unjustly punished because from inside the act he does not perceive the full scale of the damage he has caused.
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A student infers from Virgil's wish to burn his work that he may have known his poetic project was wrong and repented before death.
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He defines ego as wanting to stand above the people around you, and fear as not truly knowing yourself and therefore being afraid.
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Another student says art changes a person by naming something previously unnameable inside them, producing recognition and resonance.
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A student answers that God wanted relationship, and Jiang converts that into the speculation that God created humanity because he was lonely and wanted to know himself.
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"that you're my fan or upset yeah yeah it's just human nature okay and that's why the line comedy is something that resonates with..."
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"...ambition knows what it is, even though it's something that blocks self knowledge."
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"All I was gonna say is, Lincoln says that that that's, that's his favorite speech in Shakespeare. That speech by Claudius. And it's just..."
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"ego that he chose to be okay so we know it's a lie okay and how do we know it's a lie but for..."
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"kato do you understand we know this is a lie because we just saw kato in purgatory and kato we know for fact is..."
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"Why does he hate God so much? He curses God, right? And he's, I see the only person we seen in front of that..."
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"So we said before that the effects of theory is so big on society, but it is kind of one of those crimes that..."
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"Okay. Um, why don't you think it's a bad thing or it's not that you think,"
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"Like before he died, he was like, please burn all this stuff. That means that his consciousness knows that what he did was wrong...."
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"So these are the two things, right? Ego and fear. Ego is you want to stand above the people around you. Fear is you..."
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"yeah i think it it names something in yourself that was that used to be unnameable that you don't know how to explain it..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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