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Flying Towards Fate
“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: your mind was yours, not his, and at its bidding
you regarded mortal men too high, Prometheus.”
-Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound”
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.... 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 which he was born into. Milkman, in his selfishness, attempts to runaway from the conflicts both with and against himself, but a combination of his father’s own hubris and the secrecy of his own heritage, binds him to the life he was destined to fulfill. Milkman is ....
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