Posted by Joffre on 17/9/2009, 13:49:34, in reply to "Re: The Vicar of Wakefield"
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Primrose's acceptance an optimism in the face of everything might be construed as funny. There's a certain humor that goes along with thinking, what a moron.
About Job's children, I don't think you have to go very far back to a time when fathers had little to do with children and thought of them mostly as their posterity. I don't even think the women of some classes and times have had much emotional investment in their children. Antigone says that a husband or a child can be replaced but never a brother, though I believe some people consider that line to be an interpolation. Perhaps the idea is more disturbing in the Bible because of what the Bible is supposed to be.
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