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    Supports→The softening of Laocoön's scream to a sigh is not a reflection of ignoble character

    The reason for suppressing the scream is aesthetic, not moral

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    The demands of beauty could not be reconciled with [his] pain in all its disfiguring violence, so it had to be reduced. The scream had to be softened to a sigh, not because screaming betrays an ignoble soul, but because it distorts the features in a disgusting manner. (Laocoön, chapter 1, pp. 15, 17)

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