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The affective condition Jiang thinks Satan must produce in an audience before deeper temptation can succeed.
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sympathy
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The Lazarus example is allowed into the discussion as evidence that even foreknown resurrection does not cancel the legitimacy of sympathetic grief.
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Jiang treats crying as a basic human reaction that cannot simply be switched off by detached knowledge, which is why sympathetic grief remains real.
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Lucifer's temptation, in Jiang's frame, requires not only erotic or material allure but also a sympathetic backstory in which God appears as the betrayer.
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Jiang links this sympathetic Satan plotline to Paradise Lost, where the rebel's self-justifying story helps seduce readers as well as characters.
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Jiang interprets Sinon's speech as a temptation strategy: like Satan using lyric force, he first wins sympathy in order to open the city to destruction.
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Jiang says Sinon's long speech works by poetic sympathy: despite obvious danger, the Trojans let the horse in because his narrative hijacks their judgment.
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Catharsis creates a reciprocal identification in which the tragic character lives in the spectator and the spectator lives in the character.
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Jiang says Achilles' speech is not merely private grievance; it is also an attempt to win sympathy from the other Greeks and establish his own self-understanding.
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"Yeah, it also kind of makes me think about Lazarus' death when Jesus went and cried at his funeral. It's like, oh, if you..."
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"Yes, because it's a human reaction, right? Yeah. It's something you can control. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yes. Let's keep on going."
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"Like, to what extent we can relate with him? Like, can we understand how he got himself there? Or do we just... See him..."
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"This is really good. Yes. Sympathy, right? So Lucifer is going to tell us a story of how he was betrayed by God, right?..."
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"Can you please suddenly in the thick of it all, a young soldier hand shackled behind his back with much shouting Trojan shepherds were..."
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"...And the first thing that's in would do is elicit his sympathy, right? And that's exactly what's seen on is doing here. Keep on..."
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"All of it. My King, I'll tell you come what may the whole true story. Greek. I am. I don't deny it. Now that..."
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"...But the idea is with his poetry, he's able to elicit sympathy and that convinced the Trojans to let in the Trojan horse, even..."
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"that oh it's hubris that leads to tragedy and therefore it will make you a much more humble person okay this is what we..."
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"...to Agamemnon. But he's also saying this in order to win sympathy for the war. He's saying this from the others as well. Right?..."
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"...the closest word in China in Chinese? The closest word is sympathy. Okay, which is a same feeling which is the same feeling"
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"Yeah, yeah, it's not empathy. Yeah and compassion. Is there a word for compassion? That's similar, but not quite. Yeah"
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