ENG272H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Walter Benjamin, German Literature, Dialectic
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Aeneus: what a good heroought to be, exiled from rome. Virgil exiled from his home: due to his intelligence he was taken and became a rock star, he was the 2nd most famous roman (1st being ceaser augustus) Broch: he left due to the political conflict involving hitler, uses the fiction of aeneus and virgil. We don"t actually know anything about the real virgil, this is just about what broch thinks he may have thought about. The final few hours of virgil"s life seemed to be the darkest. We explore what kind of truths become soured. For virgil, 3 bargainers are symbols- pg 130-1. He perceived that no further would not be in vain - pg 130. In the scene, a bargain session ends in murder. Shows that people have purely economic relations and no humanistic aspect. The text tries to nudge us into thinking that broch and virgil are the same.
