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Wilkes may have had no serious expectation of forcing his king's abdication, yet he did create conditions that, had circumstances developed perfectly, might have led in that direction.
Its ethical open-endedness, the multiplicity of perspectives, voices, and judgments it offers, and its abdication of narrative authority, may all be construed as forms of resistance to narrative closure.
Only if the panic had been great enough to cause an abdication, or at least some change of policy, would the perpetrators have felt able to boast of their tactics.
Medical training inculcates this belief and if physicians were to relinquish this power to patients, they would most likely believe this was an abdication of their professional responsibility.
By the same token, this may explain why abdication in favour of one of his sons was said finally to have commended itself to the king himself.
His abdication is not therefore judged a failure.
In the case of total abdication this intersection would be empty.
While this characterization may have been apt in some instances, intimidation rather than ideological orientation was responsible for many of the abdications.
