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A dramatic form that reveals human limitation, fate, and the inevitability of tragic suffering, converting sorrow and pity into wisdom, empathy, and morality.
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Tragedy
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So they pass through the terrace of prides to learn humility. Now they have entered new terrace and of course there's more artwork. And..."
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Jiang insists that Dante's first concrete response to tragic art is bodily posture: he is bent low and looking downward, not merely entertaining abstract interpretations.
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Jiang explicitly identifies Dante's response to tragic art as crying and uses that response to open a broader theory of catharsis.
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Jiang argues that empathy is what leads to crying in response to tragedy, because the viewer perceives the pain of others rather than mocking it.
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Jiang adds a communal dimension: a group that cries together over tragedy becomes connected to one another, so catharsis is also a mechanism of community formation.
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Jiang closes by saying religious people would frame redemption as possible only through suffering, pain, and tragedy.
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Jiang concludes that the great tragedy of the game is that people believe short-term success will produce future happiness even though it will not.
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Athenian theater is described as central to Athenian life and as a practice of education and enlightenment, not only entertainment.
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Through Shelley, Jiang presents tragedy as a mirror in which spectators see themselves under a disguise of circumstance and encounter what they love, admire, and would become.
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"So they pass through the terrace of prides to learn humility. Now they have entered new terrace and of course there's more artwork. And..."
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"He seems quite shocked and sad. What's he doing literally? Remembering and like imagining. What's the word?"
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"What is his action? He's sad. What is his action? What does the text say? What's he literally doing right now? As he's watching..."
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"...says he's crying. Okay? So now I want to talk about tragedy. Okay? Because like things he saw, this artwork, they are tragic. There's..."
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"...your body the pain of other people who have also felt tragedy."
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"Because what leads to the crying is the empathy, right? That is what leads to the crying because you see the pain in others...."
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"...right. So that's the idea here. Where if you where a tragedy is watched by a group of people and the fact that they..."
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"...can only find redemption through suffering and through pain and through tragedy, all right? Okay? Any more questions, guys? Okay. All right. I'll see..."
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"So that's the great tragedy of this game, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, good. Any more questions? Okay, good. So we'll continue this..."
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"giving you the theory um we'll see how persia shelley was a very famous british romantic poet how he how he explains this okay..."
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"...them into moral people with ambition with creativity all right the tragedies of athenian poets are as mirrors in which a spectator beholds himself..."
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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