Women have always been the most neglected group in Chinese history
God created humans long time ago, and we spread ourselves around the globe as time goes by. Humans were supposed to be equal under God, but soon after the diversities of cultures developed and that became another story. There is a great notation for Chinese culture which is the inequality between men and women. The story "In Broad Daylight", by Ha Jin, is about a woman who offended the rules of her village and was criticized in a parade. The following paragraphs are about the different interpretations of the story, such as, cultural and historical view point. * First of all, starting from the cultural view point, women have always been the most neglected group in Chinese history, they were not allowed to have social status and they would undergo serious punishments once they had violated the laws. In the story, the main character, Mu Ying, who was an adulteress and was criticized in front of the villagers. "Mu was being brought out through a large crowd at the front gate."(565). In front of the crowd, Mu Ying was stroke with hammers, stones. The villagers even cursed Mu to be a fox spirit, in which the fox spirit always lured men in ancient Chinese stories. Mu lost all her respects in front of the crowd and she was hurt deeply in a sense of her physical body and mental feelings. Moreover, the punishments between men and women were very different. For men, the executioners
"The Whole Poem is just a Metaphor for the Imaginative Process." What is Your Response to this Quote?
"The Whole Poem is just a Metaphor for the Imaginative Process." What is Your Response to this Quote? Dreaming is the ultimate act of imagination. In dreams our imagination is allowed to run wild and can create images and ideas that we may not be able to comprehend in real life. Coleridge composed this poem after awakening from a dream and this may be the thought behind this quote. I feel this quote is very true; the poem is full of very outrageous images and ideas. Coleridge was an outrageous man and wrote this poem after a drug induced sleep. He lived in a world where people could not escape very easily. They couldn't take off on a plane and leave their world behind them, they would not travel much and only the rich would travel abroad. I feel Coleridge wanted to escape and in this poem he shows how he escapes. He enters into another world, a world where there is pleasure of inexhaustible amounts. There is sex, drugs and beautiful scenes all around. The poem is this world he wants to create; Coleridge uses his imagination to create this place and describes it to us in the poem. The imaginative process I feel is to be creative, creating dramatic or simple images of your own. Within Kubla Khan there are many remarkable and interesting images, the first verse being a good example of this. It begins with the setting, Xanadu, a pleasure dome, where the River Alph runs
Philosophy and the emotions.
Erica Stein Philosophy and the Emotions In Symposium, the great philosophers of Plato's time gather to begin their usual drinking, but due to their debauchery of the previous night, they decide to refrain and discuss a forgotten topic: love. The idea of symmetry in love relationships surfaces as a shared opinion. The love relationships between older teachers and younger students are always symmetrical because each party benefits from the other. The symmetry does not come from both partners' possessing the same qualities; rather it develops through a balance and/or exchange of the dissimilar qualities brought into the relationship by each participant. The two lovers benefit equally yet differently. In many of these balanced relationships, the couples in love often are opposites who bring different qualities to the table. The phrase "opposites attract" is a universal expression that applies to what Socrates points out as the key exchange in a love relationship. He describes this relationship as follows: "So such a man or anyone else who has a desire desires what is not at hand and not present, what he does not have, and what he is not, and that of which he is in need; for such are objects of desire and love." (200, E) This thought might suggest asymmetry in love relationships because of the
"Non fiction is seldom objective. Often it sways your feelings or influences your thoughts." By referring closely to a work of non-fiction, show how the writer does more than simply convey information.
Laura Quigley 5m2 "Letter to Daniel" by Fergal Keane Task: "Non fiction is seldom objective. Often it sways your feelings or influences your thoughts." By referring closely to a work of non-fiction, show how the writer does more than simply convey information. Often non fiction tries to convey emotion and thought rather than simply providing information in order to move the reader. A piece of non fiction which has had a lasting impression on me is "Letter to Daniel" by the Irish foreign correspondent, Fergal Keane. This piece of writing is written in the form of a letter in which Keane has put across moving reflections about his first child's birth. To show the strong and great effect his son has brought upon himself and his wife, Keane uses certain techniques such as rich imagery, sentence structure, tone, theme and a personal style of writing to convey his thoughts and feelings. Firstly, Keane immediately makes it clear to me that he is writing in the form of a letter when he begins writing with the phrase "My dear son". He then describes to his son how his birth has altered and changed his lifestyle; "I'm learning the art of one handed typing" This shows that since Daniel was born, Keane has been learning to cope with new things. However by describing the task as an "art" the writer shows that he doesn't mind this new way of living. He further describes the idea that
A Midsummer Night's Dream - an example of a Shakespearian comedy
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. The poems are 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy and 'One Flesh' by Elizabeth Jennings.
Jessica Bending 10SD Comparing two Love Poems This essay is about two poems on the same theme, love but they both have been written in a different period of time, one poem is post twentieth century and the other one is pre twentieth century. The poems are 'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy and 'One Flesh' by Elizabeth Jennings. The poet who wrote 'Neutral Tones' Thomas Hardy also has written many famous novels and as a poet chooses his words very carefully. In this poem, 'Neutral Tones', Hardy talks about the theme of love in a bad negative way. This poem has four stanzas and of four lines each. As in all poems the title acts as a signpost into the poem, this title suggests that the theme of the poem, love has no colour, no meaning, dull, one sided, bland and wishy-washy. This poem shows us the down sides of love being heart broken and it also shows the fragility of love and that love doesn't last forever. The first line of the first stanza is significant, 'We stood by a pond that winter day', the deliberate use of the word 'winter' sets the scene in the way it tells us the time in the year and the mood, cold, chilly, dead. This first stanza uses alliteration in the sibilant 's', 'starving sod' which also are hard words. The second stanza suggests that there were arguments in the relationship 'your eyes on me were eyes that rove' and 'words played between us to and fro'.
How does the Merchant subvert the courtly love code?
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John Donne 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'.
John Donne 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' This poem is purported to have been written in 1611, when Donne left his wife to journey to France. In terms of theme, the poem yet again deals with the immensity and permanence of the love between poet and beloved; in terms of conceits, this poem contains one of Donne's most famous conceits, that of the twin compasses in verses 7-9; however, the poem is also interesting as containing other scientific references to the craft of metallurgy and to Renaissance astronomical and metereological theory. Basically, the poem falls into three sections elaborating three different conceits, each of which provides a different metaphoric way for the beloved to view her absence from the poet, and to be consoled. The first conceit, elaborated upon in verses 1-3, is a metereological and astronomical one. It begins, in verse 1, with a comparison between departure for a journey and departure in death; in this regard, the beloved is advised to emulate a 'virtuous man' who would 'whisper to his soul to go' without melodrama or hysterics or fear, dying so imperceptibly that his friends cannot tell if he has stopped breathing or not. Such a quiet death, little more than a breeze, is thus made an analogy for departure, as the poet advises his beloved to 'melt' just like this 'and make no noise,/No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move' as such
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Katherine Pengelly 12·3 AS Music Coursework 2003 Attitudes towards women, and their role in American Musical Theatre. For my essay, I am going to look at the attitudes towards women, both from men and other women, and the significant role that that women had in telling the stories in American musical theatre. Showboat was the first musical of its kind. Up to this point, musicals consisted of songs and dances, with often feeble storylines based around the big stars. Showboat had a real story, adapted from a novel, and both the singing and dancing told the story. At the beginning of Showboat, after we have been introduced to the main characters, we hear the main female characters attitude towards men and love. 'Fish got to swim, birds got to fly, I got to love one man till I die. Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.' Julie seems like a surrogate mother to Magnolia, giving her advice, as we see Magnolia's relationship with her own mother is very strained. Parthy doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with the stage or Ravenal, the two things her daughter is most passionate about. Julie, on the other hand, just offers Magnolia advice and listens to her. We see Magnolia and Parthy's differences highlighted by the composer's use of the perfect fourth to show Magnolias closeness with the river, and the augmented fourth or tritone to show Parthy's distance from