in art it's sometimes hard (or at least controversial) to separate confusion from ambiguity.
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like, is Wandavision presenting Wanda as an ambiguous moral figure? or are they just rally confused about what they're doing? (could be both!)
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Death of the Author means in a lot of cases it doesn't really matter
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Like, this is one of the explicit "canonical" applications of DotA -- Milton would've protested hard against the idea that he could've possibly intended to make *the fucking Devil* the ambiguous hero of Paradise Lost But he totally did, even if it was an accident
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it sort of matters! death of the author is always in some conflict with the fact that we tend to interpolate an author.
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I'm pretty sure Milton meant Satan to be at least somewhat sympathetic.
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The classic take is that Milton's stated mission to "justify the ways of God to man" was a massive failure, and a predictable failure -- like, nope, we're all still pretty mad about the existence of sin and suffering over here
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But it's that failure that's interesting, especially the fact that in that failure Milton was making points running against the grain of what his goal was supposed to be (asking if an all-knowing all-loving God can really exist, if it's even a defensible concept)
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But is that DotA or is that distrusting the author's self-described motives? Those aren't the same thing.
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