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Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination

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The Ugly Duckling

Zane Soaked is about an ugly duckling who longs for beauty. The author argues that the character doesn't have a "false sense of identity" He says his nobility isn't in misnaming himself as 'the ugly duckling' But it's what draws him to these swans, and he wants to be with them.

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