Posted by Sterling on 17/9/2009, 20:34:48, in reply to "Re: The Vicar of Wakefield"
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I don't want to derail the discussion of TVOW into a biblical discussion, but fathers loving their children (especially sons) is found throughout the Old Testament. Think of the story of Abraham and Isaac, with the implied horror of God's request for the sacrifice of a son, or of David's intense grief over the death of Absalom. As for the New Testament, well, let's kill the fatted calf at the return of the Prodigal Son. I don't believe that the ancient Hebrews did not love their sons (or Son, as the case may be).
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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.
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: 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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