Yet by saying this, Philoctetes underlines his humanity and his language describing his sufferings and memory of being abandoned alongside his love of Neoptolemus. ... Philoctetes is defined by his suffering. His suffering in part reflects his savagery. ... Here we see that Philoctetes suffers both physically and morally, John Paul talks about this is his encyclical of suffering "physical suffering is present when "the body is hurting" in some way, whereas moral suffering is "pain of the soul21". ...

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