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“It is never a sweet thing to draw out a long, long life in cheerful hopes, and feed the spirit in the bright benignity of happiness: but I shiver when I see you wasted with the ten thousand pains, all because you did not tremble at the name of Zeus: you ....

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.... own aspirations. He will discover and make decisions that provide meaning, which allows purpose and dignity in his existence, or he will proclaim loudly that he will never abandon these aspirations because they ought to be there. Greek tragedy was written as an affirmation of these ideals of an individual man plagued with the conflict of his universe and the fate that governed him. The prime function of these dramas was to express the feelings and reflections of man’s encounter with fate. Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon is a reflection of Greek tragedy in that the book’s central character Milkman is governed by the environment in whi ....