I don't care if we're tricked into empathising, even sympathising with her, just so long as we get hamartia, hubris and anagnorisis as well. |
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She is in the middle of explaining the concept of anagnorisis, the point in a tragedy at which the protagonist arrives at a momentous recognition. |
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His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators. |
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For example, one day while trying to overcome his traumatic separation from Helen Baird, he experiences anagnorisis in one of his classes. |
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Even more intensely than for Odysseus at his homecoming and anagnorisis, these paradigms of misbelieving fear and faith meet in the passion of Jesus. |
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It seems to be, in fact, a case of reinscriptive anagnorisis, in the proper classical sense of knowing throughout rather than simply knowing again. |
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