Motif
political degeneration expressed through animal and monster imagery
political_degeneration_expressed_through_animal_and_monster_imagery
A motif of the Pride, Hubris, and Downfall family, within the sub-family Political Degeneration and Regime Sequences. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
greek
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The Republic The Republic / THE REPUBLIC / INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.; lines 4871-4959 confidence: high
The passage lists portraits of political character types: timocratical, oligarchical, democratic, and tyrannical; it includes the democratic man as a State with citadel and embassies, wild-beast nature, the tyrant as parricide and obscene dream, and drones becoming a winged monster drone.
The passage describes a wild-beast nature breaking loose and a sequence of drones culminating in a winged monster drone.
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