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The Meaning of Suffering in Job and The Aeneid
Throughout Virgil's Aeneid and Job from the Old Testament, great
obstacles block the paths of the protagonists. Mental and physical,
anguish is placed upon Job and Aeneas. Though both men suffer extreme pain,
the extent and content of the tribulations are different.
Job's suffering is placed upon him without provocation. Aeneas
also beli ....
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.... to God for an explanation, Job receives nothing. This
causes alone causes more mental anguish than anything else that happens in
either work. Job's family is exterminated, he is pile of fermenting flesh,
and he has no sign from God as to why this is happening. Job does not even
get omens or other supernatural signals to assure him of God existence.
Aeneas, though, receives security not only of the existence of higher
powers, but that they are actually aiding him. These inc ....
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