THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
PHENOMENOLOGY
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Question
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How did Sartre’s fox “magically transform the world”?
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by re-imaging the delicious grapes as sour
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By learning magic like Harry Potter did when he transformed monsters in the Prisoner of Askaban
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By hurting one’s self or someone else:renouncing your own freedom or taking someone else’s by coercion
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -After several failed attempts to reach the grapes, the fox realizes he’ll never get them, and walks away. In an attempt to save his reputation and cure his smarting ego, the fox says the grapes were sour anyway, so he never really wanted them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the fable describes purely subjective behaviour, the English idiom “sour grapes", which derives from the story, is now often used also of envious disparagement of something to others.
Detailed explanation-3: -: disparagement of something that has proven unattainable. his criticisms are just sour grapes.
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