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Argumentum Heroism can't exist in a fated world
Title: Argumentum Heroism can't exist in a fated world
Category: Literature / English
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Argumentum Heroism can't exist in a fated world
ARGUMENTUM AD PINOCCHIO:
Heroism can't exist in a fated world!
FAT·TAL·ISM:
(1) The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
(2) Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
Role of Fate in Virgil's Aeneid:
1. Jupiter governs the events of men (1:320-329).
2. Aeneas tells the Romans that "fate has promised" their settlement in Latium
(1:286- 287).
3. Jupiter tells Venus that the Romans' "fate is firm" (1:358-366).
4. Dido can't help but fall …showed first 75 words of 1899 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1899 total…called upon the gods with vows:" (5:307-10).
"Nisus,/ who would have won the first prize by his merit had not malicious Fortune hampered me," (5:469-70).
Venus complains to Neptune about Juno (who can't accept Fate):
"Juno's fanatic wrath . . . she can never be softened . . . she can never accept the Fates' or Jupiter's decrees." (5:1026-33)
BOOK 6
Sibyl prophecies to Aeneas: (6:115-135)
Sibyl tells Palinorus to "Leave any hope that prayer can turs aside/ the gods' decrees" (6:495-496).
Anchises tells Aeneas his fate: (6:1000-1137)
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