The correct answer is Creon.
Oedipus sends Creon to the oracle at Delphi to learn how to save Thebes. Creon reports that the city can only be saved by finding and punishing the murder of the previous king, Laius.
What Hawthorne cares about, and it comes up constantly throughout the book, is the inheritance that accompanies the Pyncheons and lead them down to a bitter path: "weakness, defects, dark passions, the tendency to do the evil and the moral weaknesses that lead to crime pass from one generation to another".
#1) How does our pride get in the way of receiving gracefully? #2) How can we overcome it?
Answer: 1). With a negative connotation pride refers to a foolishly and irrationally corrupt sense of one's personal value, status or accomplishments. Pride can lead us to Seek recognition to exalt ourselves, Treat others unfairly, Accept no responsibility for wrongdoing, Speak constantly without listening, Be only concerned with ourselves.Answer 2). Ways to overcome pride are acknowledging your pridefulness, own up to your mistakes. Lose the defensiveness. Getting rid of self-consciousness, embrace constructive criticism. Stop comparing, and ask more questions.
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