assignment: Icarus

1.      What do you see in the picture? Where is Icarus? What are the other figures in the picture? Why does the painter try to convey through the arrangement of the figures in the painting?  

The sun sets in the west. It was a calm sea. I saw an active village which also at peace. People went each to their jobs.   

It is just below the picture and on the right. There are both legs and the toes up on the sea.   

 People always think themselves are the protagonist in this world, but actually it is not.

4. What is the speaker’s tone? What is message that the speaker try to convey?      Sorrow.     

We always think we have a place in the world. And it won’t be a neglected   place.  The manager who regard highly will think the company will be dangerous without him/her. As a matter of fact, there are too many people are waiting to fulfill the empty post. In spit of fact that Icarus fall down, people still working and the day still going. The universe won’t be lonely without you. And you are belong a part of this world. Do our duty. Paint the picture as well as we canthe picture which all of us paint in our own life.

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Essay Assignment 02:The Sorrows of Young Werther

1. Werther says “ That the life of man is but a dream is a thought which has occurred to many people, and I myself am constantly haunted by it” at the beginning of the letter written on May 22. What is he trying to tell us, we people everywhere? [ Be sure to give evidences to strengthen your opinions.
Although he takes joy in his surroundings, Werther’s gloomy side is apparent right from the start. He writes that he finds many of the people he meets “thoroughly repulsive and quite intolerable in their demonstrations of friendship.” I think it is also a place that he disclose that he is not so unique that he pretend.(He look down on the people in the town, but he still constantly haunted by it.)when I see how all human active and speculative faculties of man; when I see how all human activity is directed toward procuring satisfaction for needs that have no other purpose than prolonging our miserable existence. In Werther’s opinion, people always pay attention to material comforts and neglect the mental requirement. Just like Madame Bovary live in the world themselves made, but Werther still will go on smiling at the outer world like someone in a dream Every one has their realm which other can not visit, not even in other’s dream. I think there are three things in Werther’s dream: the chaste like child, the happiness that child has and the love which can cross any limitation. This example and several others, including the whole of the letter of May 22, suggest a lurking misanthropy beneath Werther’s romantic facade, which will become more prevalent as the novel continues. Werther alludes to suicide, saying that through it one can “leave this prison whenever he likes.”
2. How does Werther think of children? Why does he think that the happiest people in the world are like chidren? [ Be sure to give evidences to strengthen your opinions.]
Werther thought that children is the happiest and the most fortunate humans in the world. He thought children did not suffer from stress and did not have to worried about the thing which was unreachable. I do think that he is a youth of obvious privilege who can have every thing he want when he was little; however; he can not do anything he want in the time which was imprison. Children throw themselves around the stage for fun, not have something to do with wins or lose. Children do not care about other’s impression; they just want get a lot pleasure from it. But it is totally different from adults. I willingly admit that those are the happiest people who, like the children, live for the day only. I think maybe he really yearn for the purest happiness. But he also states that the happiest people are the most ignorant – those who lack the intelligence or the curiosity to see the injustice of the world. This haughty note is complemented by an obsession with death.
3.What kind of person does Werther think he is? What are the characteristics of the young Werther you learn from the letter on May 22?

Werther considers himself superior to the peasants he draws and converses with; they are like a spoiled boy’s playthings, valued for their charming, poetic ignorance, useful because they offer Werther opportunities to feel liberal and wise. I think he is just like a Chinese poem said: 少年不愁強說愁. He thought too much and too philosophy that he was not unable to think about.

oh~~~
i’m so sick that i can not really finger on what i really want to convey. : (
i just wish my body can allow me prepare my final exams>

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Essay Assignment 01: The Divine Comedy « Joy’s Blog

1. In Canto V of Inferno, those who are indulged in lust are sent to the second circle of hell, including Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, Paris, Tristan, Francesca and Paolo.  Choose ONE of the sinners lost in lust. Explain why Dante puts him/her into hell. I choose Helen as my sample to explain it. Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world. So she was really Greek, not Trojan. Paris, a prince of
Troy, he was asked to choose who was the prettiest goddess. Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in the world in marriage: Helen of Sparta.
Paris chose Aphrodite as his answer because of her offer. Helen of
Sparta was better known as Helen of Troy. When the Trojan prince, Paris came to court of Sparta, Menelaüs entertained him for a week, before leaving for
Crete to attend his grandfather’s funeral. During Menelaüs’ absence, the goddess made Helen fall in love with
Paris. Helen ran off to Troy with
Paris and married him. This resulted in a war between the Greeks and Trojans that would last for ten years. Helen’s elopement course the great war. She was not faithful to her marriage and her decision made tens of thousands innocent people engulfed in fear even lost their lifes.
2. Why is Dante moved to tears after Francesca’s description of love and why does he finally fall “as a dead body falls” after her personal account of her intimate relationship with Paolo?
 
Because Francesca married to Paolo’s brother and that made it impossible to be together. Sometimes selfish is a really major way to show love. They had to tell themselves can not break the rule, though it was so difficult to do it. The firm love between Francesca and Paolo make Dante remain his memory of he lover his lover from afar. Certainly, he felt sorry about this wholehearted lover in the hell.How sorrowful Dante was! 3. From Dante’s presentation of Francesca and Paolo, we are encouraged to consider the place of moral responsibility in depictions of love, sex, and violence in our own day. We can certainly discuss music, television, movies, and advertising (as well as literature) in these terms. Who is more (or less) responsible and therefore accountable for unacceptable attitudes and behavior in society: the creators and vehicles of such messages or the consumers and audiences?No matter how dangerous or nasty the work is, if it can earn money there would be lots of people willing to do it. “Apple News Paper” is a generally know example for Taiwanese. The owner of this company obvious tells us that he only want to make a paper which the most readers will buy and that reflects the quality of reader. But in the most situations, the most readers always are not in high class.Still, I think audiences have due to take charge of the mass media’s quality is fallen step by step. The vehicles’ ethical journalism his job are really worth to people to call in question. There are too many vehicle can not refuse the irresistible profit, let alone being neutral. 

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