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#(or maybe it was because hiob was innocent and prometheus was guilty!!!!)
todaviia
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Book of Job, trans. Edward L. Greenstein
Prometheus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#words
#a) man angry at god is my absolutely favorite genre of poem
#and b) ITS ABOUT THE JUXTAPOSITION!!!!!!
#literally i could write an essay about it
#both of them looking for physical signs of humanity in god
#(hiob still hoping for eyes whereas prometheus has long since given up on looking for a heart)
#hiob asking how god experiences time
#whereas with prometheus... on the one hand it seems like he is asserting it... but he's also asking
#that time is zeus' master
#and of course... the main difference
#your hands formed me
#(btw the footnote on that says the verb root connotates pain!!!!)
#vs prometheus flat out rejecting this possibility - I made me and fate made me but YOU didnt
#but also hiob's anger at god's action vs prometheus anger at zeus' inaction
#this is a dialogue actually except its a trialogue where one party is God and therefore silent
#except of course that he will answer
#very differenetly for both of them - zeus will damn prometheus and god will reconcile with hiob
#(maybe it was smarter for hiob to look for god's eyes to fairly judge his crime rather than his heart to have compassion)
#(or maybe it was because hiob was innocent and prometheus was guilty!!!!)
#also i just looked it up the original myths came about roughly at the same time around 500 bc
#anyway its literally the middle of the night but im going crrrrrazyyyy a
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