In Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth, the character of Augustus is similar to Sophocles’ Oedipus in the ways that he sees himself as an exemplary individual who boldly accepts challe

In Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth, the character of Augustus is similar to Sophocles’
Oedipus in the ways that he sees himself as an exemplary individual who boldly accepts challenges
and questions what he perceives to be superstitious beliefs keeping the enslaved in mental bondage.
He views himself as modern, aspiring to lead the rebellion yet becoming increasingly alienated
from the enslaved on the plantation. Analyze this conflict within Augustus’s character. He wants
to lead the enslaved with the ideas that he has read about in books, yet he also sets himself apart
from them.
How and why is
Augustus seduced by Amalia despite the intelligence and leadership he shows within the rebellion?
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