Sublime

She pleads silently, Never grow old, never die, knowing it’s too much to ask. My rock, my fortress, my deliverer.

So the ideal tragic plot cannot be constructed around an exceptionally virtuous person or a wicked person; it must therefore be based on someone between these two – broadly speaking virtuous, but not outstandingly so. Because their virtue is not outstanding, we do not find their downfall morally repellent; because their downfall is undeserved, we c

“As the kings displayed pride and rigor in their commands, the greater part of the Greeks took away their power, and left them only the care of religion.”465

That’s how myths work. Macduff, and Lady Macbeth.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us; the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost him his eyes,” and Edmund answers--you remember, he's wounded, he's dying--”Thou hast spoken right; 'tis true. The wheel is come full circle; I am here.”

De même, quand un sanglier ou un lion, fier de sa vigueur, se retourne contre les chiens et les chasseurs, ceux-ci, se serrant, s'arrêtent en face et lui dardent un grand nombre de traits; mais son coeur orgueilleux ne tremble ni ne s'épouvante, et son audace cause sa perte.

“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.