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‘... It should be stressed that to Sophocles “the gods” appear to have represented the natural forces of the universe to which human beings are unwittingly or unwillingly subject. To Sophocles, human beings live for the most part in dark ignorance because they are cut off from these permanent, unchanging forces and structures of reality. Yet it is pain, suffering and the endurance of tragic crisis that can bring people into valid contact with the universal order of things. In this process, a person can become more human, more genuinely himself.’

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