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Jiang frames the last four terraces as misdirections of love rather than simple moral violations.
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Vice
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A student synthesis Jiang endorses says the challenges of Purgatory all share one root in lack of love, compassion, and imagination, so overcoming one vice can illuminate the others.
definition
In his closing comparison, Bromwich says ambition should be understood as a vice that takes someone over, and that Shakespeare and Dante reward attention to that vice in fundamentally different formal ways.
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"Exactly. You're right. Exactly. Right. So, it's structured the way it is because this, the last four, okay, it's really like misdirection of love,..."
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"Yes. I'm going back to a comment a really smart person told me yesterday. Like, why does envy exist? Right? Like somebody, one of..."
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"...as an unnecessary desire to perform something but ambition is a vice as a vice that takes someone over um Shakespeare gives you a..."
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"...his reply, he knows the harm that lies in his worst vice. If he chastises it to ease its expiation, do not wonder. For..."
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"...as your possessions indigence, with virtue, rather than much wealth, with vice. These words have been so pleasing to me, I moved forward so..."
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"...the pest of France, they know his life. It's filled its vice out of that knowledge grows, the grief that has pierced them. That..."
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"...the friar, in Bologna, I once heard about the devil's many vices. They said he was a liar and a father of lies. And..."
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"...I had to gain experience of the world and of the vices and the worth of men. Therefore I set out on the open..."
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"...from Caesar's dwelling, she who is the death of all and vice of every court, inflamed the minds of everyone against me, and those..."
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"...that we think is normal a thousand years ago wasn't, and vice versa. Right. But the faith, the hope, that is everlasting."
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"...his reply, he knows the harm that lies in his worst vice. If he chastises it to ease his expiation, do not wonder. For..."
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