#V TOOK SOLACE IN BLAKE AND IT HELPED HIM

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In DMC5, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience are a significant motivating factor behind Vergil's psychological resolution and re-attainment of social ties, as a facet of DMC's greater thematic statement of how humanity - i.e. love, empathy, familial connection - are the only true sources of strength, psychological, social, or otherwise.

Blake's Songs are first linked to humanity when Vergil is in his half-complete, human form, V. As V, Vergil takes comfort in Blake's verses because they hail from his pleasant childhood, and Vergil did not let himself profoundly reflect on those days before he was split into V and Urizen (his demon form). Vergil prevents such reflection because he believes indulging in sentiment is weakness; a belief he takes so as to favour his demon side, which he presumes to be unfeeling and powerful. This presumption is part of how Vergil reconciles the psychological conflict between his desire for love and protection - which was denied to him after his traumatic separation from his family and society, and the constant threat of demon assassins - and his trauma-prompted fear of helplessness - which drives him away from social connections and towards seeking power to compensate for his fear; he lords his demonic nature - associated with his pursuit of strength - as powerful over his presumed-weak human nature - associated with his trauma - in the absence of therapeutic influence to help him process the corresponding abandonment and inferiority issues.

The absence of such an influence, that can bridge the gap between his need for power and his need to re-connect with love, safety, and humanity in general, is resolved through Blake. Vergil's emotional attachment to the poems allows V to draw demonic strength from reciting them, since the powers of human-demon beings in DMC are directly related to the magnitude of their empathy-and-love-driven emotion, which makes re-connecting to his humanity through Blake a viable and more healthy alternative for strength than the pursuit of demonic artifacts. So when Vergil takes comfort in Blake's verses in DMC5, unlike his bids for power, they successfully become a therapeutic influence on him. Not only that, the Songs make Vergil reminisce on both his childhood - where any psychological conflict related to his cambion nature was minor, not intensely distressful through trauma, so he was not pushed to pursue strength even at the cost of life to relieve the mental tension - but also their content, which revolves around rejecting the corrupt, adult's state of disillusionment with community for the divine, child's state of empathy and love (esp. of family), i.e. unearthing one's humanity after oppression has buried it. This re-evaluation of the poem content, his past, and the strength he draws from them contributes to Vergil's newfound appreciation for his human sentiment, and thus - parallel to the moral of the Songs - his shift of perspective towards the more empathetic and regretful.

Aided by Blake, this shift in perspective and the kinder regard of his humanity, results in Vergil's psychological resolution, because it leads Vergil to take Nero - a highly caring, and human-favouring part-demon - as an ally and confidant. Convinced by V's confidance, Nero helps Vergil reach Urizen, by which Vergil literally reunites his human and demon halves and restores himself to his most demonically powerful form to-date. Since Nero made the restoration possible, Vergil's respect and gratitude for Nero raises, so Vergil considers and accepts Nero's proposal to end his duel with Dante. The end of the rivalry permits a truce, so Dante accompanies Vergil to the underworld - to end the crisis started by Vergil's psychological conflict reaching its peak (the split into V and Urizen) - and Nero awaits their return in the human world. Thus, because the Blake tome is one of Vergil's reminders as to his humanity's worth, Vergil attains discoverable sources of love, protection, and family connections with Nero and Dante, and gains a guard against helplessness with his powerful body - i.e. a physical and psychological reconciliation of Vergil's inner conflict.

Overall, Blake's poetry significantly factors into Vergil's realisation of the value in his human sentiment, especially the sentiments of familial love and empathy that Vergil has to exercise with Nero and Dante as V. The realisation of his humanity's value relieves his psychological conflict because a greater appreciation for his emotions prompts Vergil to develop connections with Nero and Dante, which assuage Vergil's fear of helpnessness & weakness and desire for love & protection, because he now has familial bonds to explore and his connection with Nero yields him strong demonic ability. Therefore the meaning of DMC5 - symbolised by Blake's poetry - serves the greater message of DMC: re-connecting with one's humanity - love, empathy, family - is a source of wellbeing and strength over all other pursuits.

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Match report: Debutant Docker bounces Roos

RYAN Nyhuis has sealed a dream debut for Fremantle with two late goals that helped the Dockers hold on for a heart-stopping four-point win over North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Nyhuis only came into the Dockers’ team when former skipper David Mundy was a late withdrawal with illness, but the 20-year-old defender was a revelation in attack, kicking four goals, the last of which at the 28-minute mark put Freo six points up.

WATCH: The thrilling last two minutes

The Dockers weren’t home, however. A Jack Ziebell shot on goal two minutes later appeared to be going through before it was touched on the line, then in the dying seconds Todd Goldstein looked set to steal the win for North when he received a free kick 25m from goal after being held in a ruck contest.

Freo dodged a bullet when the Roos ruckman pulled his set shot to the right and hung on for a fighting 13.8 (86) to 12.10 (82) win that broke a five-game losing streak.

Full match coverage and stats

Entering Sunday’s game, the Dockers had not won since their round nine victory over Carlton at Domain Stadium.

And they started the game like a team that was sick of losing, ramming on four consecutive goals in the opening 14 minutes to jump to a 25-point lead.

Five talking points: North Melbourne v Fremantle

Freo never led by more than that margin, however, and with Tommy Sheridan (leg) having been sidelined since half-time, looked in trouble when North cut its lead to nine points at three-quarter time.

North hit the lead for the first time at the 18-minute mark when Ben Brown snapped a clever goal, and appeared to be running away with the game when it had the next two scoring shots – behinds to Goldstein and Jack Ziebell.

WATCH: Nyhuis’ dream debut

But Nyhuis cut the Roos’ seven-point lead to just one when he goaled on the run from 50m at the 25-minute mark before kicking the match-winner from 45m after marking strongly in front of Roo debutant Daniel Nielson.

Freo skipper Nat Fyfe (33 possessions, six marks and one goal) played one of his most influential games this season, and was well supported in the midfield by Connor Blakely (32 possession and seven inside 50s) and Lachie Neale (27 possessions and seven clearances).

Michael Walters (20 possessions, three goals and seven rebound 50s) was class personified, especially when he found his way into space, and Bradley Hill’s run stretched North’s defences.

Dockers coach Ross Lyon acknowledged his team had some luck at the end of the game, but was pleased with his players’ work ethic and will to win. 

“(It was) pleasing the way we went about it. There’s a bit continuity in that now, there’s a real understanding of the effort you’ve got to bring and the intensity (required) to compete at AFL level because we had that three-week period where we didn’t do what was required,” Lyon said.

“Nathan was fantastic today and all of our leaders. We lost Mundy, (he) got on the plane and felt sick and had the flu and didn’t recover, so we brought in Ryan Nyhuis so that threw us around a little bit but he clearly delivered as a forward.

“I think you’ve got to acknowledge that (if) Goldstein kicks the goal we’re in all sorts of pressure.

“There were things we could have done better – kick-in structures and those things – but you need a little bit of luck and we had some with that miss. But our desire and our will to win was really strong, so that was incredibly pleasing and satisfying.”

North’s loss was its fifth in a row, but the Roos lost few supporters with their brave comeback.

Brown stood tall in attack for the Roos with four goals, while his defensive pressure was also outstanding and saw him run down Freo speedster Bradley Hill in the middle of the ground early in the third term.

Shaun Higgins (26 possessions and seven inside 50s) was influential through the midfield despite being shadowed by Docker Nick Suban most of the day, while skipper Jack Ziebell (28 possessions, nine clearances, eight tackles and one goal) and Ben Cunnington (28 possessions, eight clearances and eight tackles) drove the Roos’ comeback in the second half.

Aaron Mullett (two goals) also gave North damaging rebound across half-back and was well supported by Shaun Atley (one goal).

North coach Brad Scott lamented his team’s costly slow start, but took solace from the fightback that put the Kangaroos in a position to win the game.

“I feel really disappointed for our players and our fans. I think a win is always a great antidote to a few losses, so no doubt we’re disappointed,” Scott said.

“But it was all within our control. We gave ourselves opportunity.

“The game is about creating opportunity and to Fremantle’s credit they created it early and we didn’t do enough to defend it. We created it late and we didn’t take our chances.

“I can live with the execution, because that’s what you just keep working on, but we’ve got to make sure we don’t have such a lacklustre start to the game in this case.”

The Dockers burst from the blocks at the start of the game, kicking four consecutive goals in the opening 14 minutes – two through Walters – to open up a 25-point lead.

Spearhead Brown kicked North’s only goal for the term after clunking a strong mark at the 16-minute mark. Neither team could manage another major before quarter-time, with Freo taking a 19-point lead into the first break.

Nyhuis extended Freo’s lead to 25 points when he kicked his second goal inside the opening 30 seconds of the second quarter.

But with Brown providing a strong target in attack, North hit back with four of the next six goals – including a brilliant 35m left-foot dribble goal just inside the boundary by Shaun Higgins – to cut Freo’s lead to 12 points at the 22-minute mark.

Late goals to Darcy Tucker – set up by a courageous Fyfe mark running back with the flight of the ball – and Brennan Cox stretched Freo’s lead back to 25 points before North speedster Atley converted on the run in the dying seconds to reduce the half-time margin to 19 points.

MEDICAL ROOM North Melbourne: The Roos emerged with a clean bill of health.

Fremantle: Joel Hamling limped from the ground after a marking contest midway through the first quarter and received treatment on his right hip on the interchange bench. After going down to the rooms, Hamling returned at the start of the second quarter but was clearly restricted. The key defender played out the game but was switched from original opponent Ben Brown. “He had a bit of a hip that he tweaked. He just lost some power in it. He wasn’t in any pain, but he just lost that power,” Freo coach Ross Lyon said after the game. Tom Sheridan limped from the ground just before half-time with a hamstring injury and played no further part in the match. “It doesn’t seem like a tendon (injury), it seems like a standard 21-day hamstring,” Lyon said. “I could be wrong. Normally I would hear they’re concerned, but I haven’t heard that.” Brady Grey left the ground just before three-quarter time with a shoulder injury but returned with the joint heavily strapped at the start of the final term and played out the game.

NEXT UP The Kangaroos have a six-day break before they travel to Adelaide Oval to take on Port Adelaide. It will be the first time the teams have clashed at the new home of South Australian football, but North has lost all four of its matches there against Adelaide. The Dockers host West Coast at Domain Stadium next Sunday, when they will be looking to break a four-game losing streak in the Derby.

NORTH MELBOURNE     1.2   6.3   8.4   12.10 (82) FREMANTLE                   4.3   9.4   9.6   13.8 (86)   

GOALS

North Melbourne: Brown 4, Mullett 2, Mountford, Swallow, Atley, McDonald, Higgins, Ziebell Fremantle: Nyhuis 4, Walters 3, Kersten 2, Kersten 2, Fyfe, Cox

BEST 

North Melbourne: Brown, Higgins, Ziebell, Wagner, Mullett, Atley Fremantle: Fyfe, Nyhuis, Blakely, Walters, Neale, Tucker

INJURIES 

North Melbourne: Nil Fremantle: Grey (shoulder), Hamling (hip), Sheridan (hamstring), Mundy (illness) replaced in selected side by Nyhuis

Reports: Nil

Umpires: Donlon, Haussen, Hosking

Official crowd: 19,267 at Etihad Stadium

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