ENGL 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tragic Hero
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Johannesburg: this character john the silent has characteristics similar to the personas discussed in the book, prelude. In his reference to descartez, soren talks about our straying from faith an going o to ethics and rationality: the stages of understanding ourselves throughout history: In this situation, humanity believes it has passed the immature. They both are required to sacrifice their children, but under differing. Agamemnon kills his daughter whereas god interferes with abraham"s. Agamemnon"s wife after the trip never forgives him for the shedding of the daughter"s blood. She ends up killing agamemnon in his bath. by the ethical rather than using it as the standard. Kierkegard is ultimately saying that the faithful knight is tempted between the two, ultimately going with faith. But one should do this with the anxiety of the struggle: subjective (i) must be held to scrutiny when one is called to do something.
