Reading Notes W 6: Barbauld , Part B

Born Anna Laetitia Aikin (1743 -         
1825) in rural England, she was the daughter of two Presbyterians. As a child, she persuaded her father to teach her Latin and Greek which was typically forbidden to women in this period of time. She was a fierce opponent of war and slavery and an early defender of animal rights. She was special because she was doing a lot things women didn’t use to do especially a time before women gained the same rights of men. One of her poems that was pretty popular “To a little invisible being who is expected soon to become visible”.  The poem is about a mother that is full of excitement and anticipation for her baby that is about to be born and speaks of the baby in nameless, genderless, and classless way (p. 328). In this poem she hints at there are more to women that they have there strengths as well as talk about hopefully a day comes when women are no longer stuck in traditional roles. Another poem she was known for was " Eighteen Hundred and Eleven". This poem talks about war more specifically Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. She also express that britain is declining and America is on the rise.  Another writer named ANDRÉS BELLO,  

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1781, Bello began working for the colonial government in 1802 and oversaw projects of national scope. Bellos type of poetry combines classical and romantic impulses. His most famous poetry was “ode to tropical agriculture” written in 1826. It talks about agriculture and the abundance of food and the land is represented as providing everything  people need to live. . Then the Spaniards arrive, and place that group of people into servitude, yet the land kept providing. He also hint at us as we are destroying the land with are advancements (p.391-394).

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Week 5 Analysis

This week I will be doing a close reading of "Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger". The passage that stood out to me the most was when Du
Tenth said

, “

My love, can you really not come up with even a single coin? What is to become of the plan for my future?” The young master just wept, unable to answer a single word. Around the fifth watch, it gradually grew light. Tenth said, “The padded quilt I sleep on contains a hundred fifty taels in odd change. This is my private savings. My love, you may take it. I will take care of half of the three hundred, and you can take care of the other 

half" 

(p. 505). This talks about the plan that Du tenth and master Li had made to get Du tenth out of the whore house. So they made a deal with madam who was in charge of the the whore house to let Du tenth go free so she can marry master Li. The amount he needed to pay was 300 hundred silver taels within ten days or he will have to leave and never come back again. So three days have passed and Li hasn't accomplished anything so Du tenth helps by giving him what she save which was half of the amount that was asked for. In this Du tenth use the phrase my future which make me think that she is in it for herself and not with master Li. Also the tone she has through this passage and story shows she has a leadership role when it comes to her and master Li. This also shows that master Li is kind of a weak person who is easily influenced by what others say. My first thought were they are both trying to do this together but the more I thought about it it seemed more one sided in who is putting in more effort. Based on they are acting now foreshadow how they would respond to later events in the story. This is a rising issue that later builds up to the climax of the story. The raise an issue that all women during older asian culture were just there to look pretty and be a stay at home women, while men are suppose to be smart and manly. This story was the very opposite when it came to this culture norms. My new these is no matter your gender or background you are going to be you 

FENG MENGLONG. the norton Anthology of World Literature, Third Edition - Vol. 2. W.W. Norton, 1996.

Reading Notes W 5: Cao Xueqin , Part B

Character list
- AROMA, NIGHTINGALE, Snowgoose, Tealeaf, Crimson etc.: Maids in the Jia Household 
- Aunt Xue: widowed sister of lady wang and mother of Xue Pan and Xue Baochai
- Feng Yuan: caltrop's first purchaser, murdered by Xue Pan's servant
- Grandmother Jia: nee shi; widow of Bayou's paternal grandfather and head of the Rongguo branch 
  of the Jia family
- Granny Liu: old countrywoman patronized by Wang Xifeng and the Rongguo Jia's
- Jia Baoyu: incarnation of stone; the eldest surviving son of Jia Zheng and lady Wang of Rongguo
  house
- Jia Lan: Baoyu's deceased elder brother
- Jia Rong: son of cousin Zhen and Youshi
- Jia she: Jia Zheng's elder brother, Baoyu's uncle
- Jia Tanchun: daughter of Jia Zheng and Aunt Zhao; half-sister of Bayou
- Jia Yingchun: daughter of Jia She by a concubine
- Jia Yuanchun: daughter of Jia Zheng and lady wang and elder sister of Baoyu; the imperial
  concubine
- Jia Yucun: careerist claiming relationship with the Rongguo family
- Jia Zhen: also cousin Zhen; son of Jia Jing; acting head of the senior (Ningguo) branch of the Jia
  family
- Jian Zheng: Baoyu's father; the younger of Grandmother Jia's two sons
- Lady Xing: wife of Jia She and mother of Jia Lian
- Lady Zixing: an antique dealer; friend of Jia Yucun
- Lin Daiyu: incarnation of the Crimson pearl flower; daughter of Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng's sister, Jia
  Min
- Lin Ruhai: Daiyu's father; the salt commissioner of Yangchow
- Qinshi or Keqing: wife of Ja Rong
- Wang Xifeng: wife of Jia Lan and niece of Lady Wang and Aunt Xue
- Xue Baochai: daughter of Aunt Xue
- Xue Pan: son of Aunt Xue and reckless elder brother of Baochai
- Zhen Shiyin: retired gentleman of Soochow; father of Caltrop
- When Yinglian: daughter of Zhen Shiyin, later know as Caltrop

The story "The Story of The Stone" or also known as Dream of the chamber written by Cao Xueqin. It was known as one of the great classical novels written in the 18 century Qing dynasty. The first chapter starts out with a goddess named Nu-wa who was melting stones to fill the sky, she melted amalgam into  36,501 blocks each measuring 72 feet by a 144 square feet leaving a single odd block unused. The odd piece of stone was discarded and thrown done to the bottom of the mountain. One day a taoist comes across this stone as it caught his attention by speaking to him. It speaks to him and tells him of wanting to travel to the earthly world (p.523). Chen Shih-yin  lives happily with his wife, Lady Feng and their three-year-old daughter Ying-lien  beside the Temple of the Gourd in the city of Kusu now known as Soochow. In a dream, Shihyin meets two immortals a monk and a Taoist, who show him a beautiful piece of jade, which the taoist found under the mountain . The dream ends and the monk and the Taoist reappear and predict a sad fate for Shihyin's daughter Ying-lien.

Reading Notes W 5: Feng: Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger , Part A

The story "Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger” is a short story writing by the author Feng Menglong. The story takes place during the ming dynasty and is a romance story. the courtesan Du Mei fell in love with the young stylish master, Li Jia. commissioner Li found that his son has been spending his time there and disapproves of his sons actions. The madam of the house made a deal with them both if he brings her 300 taels, Du Mei is free to marry Li Jia. With the help of Li Jia’s friend, Liu Yuchun, they successfully get the money to pay off madam and became a real couple. Which leave the problem with his father not accepting someone of lower class into the family. While they figure out a way to deal with li Jia father they make a new friend  Sun Fu. Who helps them out a lot and offers to fix Li's problem with his father for Du Mei and 1000 taels of silver. So Li decides to take that offer and betrays Du Mei so she decides to sink herslef and the jewels to get away from Li and Sun and thats how it ends.  


Characters
-  Li Jia: described as a young stylish master, whom was gentle, well educated, successful,     
   full of passion and came from a respectable elegant family
- Du Mei or Du tenth: is a prostitute at a "whore house"
- Liu Yuchun’s: is Li Jia friend and also a well educated scholar
- Sun Fu: he came from a salt trade family, which were super rich. He is also well-educated 
  and gentle.
- Commissioner Li: father of Li Jia and a leader of a prosperous region in the south china
- Tenths madam: She runs and owns the "whore house" that Du Mei works at

Week 5 Project Action Plan: THE SONG OF CH’UN-HYANG

What does this work reflect about its historical, social, political and/or economic context? You may focus on race, class, power, cultural values and beliefs, historical events, the author’s biography, gender, psychology, etc.

The reading I will use in my project submission  “The Song of Ch’un-Hyang” (p. 74-89)

I will use this reading this reading to show a few of these points in greater detail and hopefully give a greater understanding of the story. 

The literary device I intended to discuss are dialogue, genre, imagery, theme. I choose these because this text is a dialogue based story of people talking about there point of view or how the feel. This genre is a almost a tragic romance. They use a lot of imagery when they are  trying to make a point or     when they are expressing there emotions. Theme is higher class people are miss using there power on lower class people as well as women or being mistreated.

characters to discuss about

- Ch'un-hyang, Sung (Spring Fragrance) is the main female character,  kisaeng Wolmae's daughter.  

  She is very beautiful and also talented in poetry and arts. She fell in love with Mongryong.

- Mongryong, Yi is the main male character who is the son of a government official (Magistrate). He    

  is an intelligent and handsome man. He fell in love with Chunhyang at first sight.
- HyangDan is Chunhyang's servant. She is devoted to Chunhyang.
- PangJa is Mongryong's male servant.
- Wolmae is Chunhyang's mother and used to be a kisaeng.
- Pyon is the replacement official of Mongryong's father as magistrate.   

info on text

- author and date are unknown, most likely work of pansori, 

- a form of musical storytelling involving song and percussion, and 

- was later adapted into prose during the reign of either King Sukjong (r. 1674–1720) or King 

  Yeongjo (r. 1724–1776). T   

- the present form of this tale took shape (1694 - 1834)

- period were Confucianism was being adopted 

things from text I will talk about(due to changes)

- I will talk about how she reject the magistrate and what he did to her 

- I might talk about Ch'un-hyang mom and how she felt her daughter was treated because she is a 

  women that one side is noble and the other not.

- I will talk about what Ch'un-hyang believes in when it comes to marriage 

- How the magistrate miss use his power when he want to take Ch'un-hyang as his concubine 

"The Song of Ch’un-Hyang". The Norton Anthology World Literature, Third Edition, Vol. D. Martin Puchner. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. Pages 74-89. 

Week 4 Analysis

This week I will be writing a literary analysis on Wu Cheng'enis folk novel journey to the west. I believe the theme of this story is redemption for your sins and also the spread of buddhism to the west. What this means to me is no matter what you have done sometimes you can get a second chance, especially for things like mistakes which are things you didn't want to do on purpose. This plays out pretty welling the story because the disciples that committed these sins weren't truly bad creatures, they helped the monk a lot through there journey as they faced monsters, demons, and just plain bad people. I think the metaphor works well for what the author is trying to discuss in his story, that there is no straight path to enlightenment there are going to be obstacles and you are going to make mistake but it is never to late. The historical part that china was being influenced by buddhism during this time in history and there ideals. As well as new styles of literature which has shaped the journey to the west, due to china's interaction with the rest of the world. The elements I choose influence and informs the author's point of view as he was writing this folk tell which was one part religious and another part fantasy because of the new mystery of the west china has not come into contact with as much, which left there mind open to imagination. The literary elements that I liked the most was character because it gave pretty good description of the charters appearances as well as there character background and a little bit of there mindset. This also can go hand and hand with imagery since this is a folk story that involves a lot of fantasy creatures and places.

Reading Notes W4: Early Modern Chinese vernacular literature, Part B

Through out the changes of Chinese culture and structure of political, Chinese literature did not not have a classical tradition of dramatic literature. This was due to many influences of nearby by people as well as farther away as well as the progress of time and change of dynasties. Another thing that helped form this early literature was religion such as confucianism, which made a conflict between ruling elite and its potential as a vision for a god life and just society. "The intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, who called for a literary revolution that would abolish classical Chinese and the privileges that were associated with it,...it spoke the language of the people; it decried hypocrisy, violence, and corruption through money and power; and it celebrated passion, truth, love, and heroic loyalty to oneself and one’s principles (p. 420)". Wu Cheng'enis a novelist and a poet known for his most popular folk tell called journey to the west. It about a monk named Xuanzang who  is traveling west from china towards India in search of buddhist scriptures who returned. later version came to give him three protectors by the great buddha, which they are there to atone for there sins. The three disciples are Sun Wukong (monkey), Zhu Bajie (pigsy) and Sha Wujing (sandy). "Throughout their journey, the four travelers are watched over, and sometimes interact with, a number of otherworldly beings: an assortment of benign bodhisattvas (buddhas who linger in this world to help others) and a Daoist pantheon of unruly and sometimes dangerous deities"(p. 422). This story became popular because it was about people and fantastic creatures, magic monkeys, monks and other worldly things.

Reading Notes W4: Voltaire, Part A

voltaire or born name Francois-marie Arouet since a very young age he has always had a passion for literature and opposing organized religion. He committed himself to writing in France his writing was seen as a danger to religion and civil order. He was an Enlightenment thinker, he also did not see democracy as the best form of government. By the time of Voltaire’s death, he was seen as a national hero. In all, he had produced enough work to fill 135 volumes, in a range of genres including tragedy, epic, philosophy, history, fiction, and journalism. A lot of Voltaire work combines a lively appetite for humor with a horrifying sense of the real existence of evil. This was probably do to his belief in Deism, which means that god docent intervene in the natural world. The story that I read was Candide, The story begins in Westphalia at the castle of the high and mighty Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh. The main character Candide who is traveling and figuring out what thee is to life after getting kicked out of his home. His first night out on his own when he was starving and cold a man offered to buy him food  and explained to him "Men are made to help each other" (voltaire p. 356 -357). The story continues as travel and come across many people that teaches him lesson about life the good, the bad and everything in-between. 

Topic Research

The topic I will do more brainstorming and research on for my class project is. What does this work reflect about its historical, social, political and/or economic context? You may focus on race, class, power, cultural values and beliefs, historical events, the author’s biography, gender, psychology, etc. My key elements would be introduction, evidence, and conclusion maybe some examples and some facts. I am choosing this topic for my project because it has a wide variety an big area I can discuss and do research on. I don't know exactly how I am going to go about creating my project. I usually write a bunch of ideas done on paper or type it out then I think what I kind of want to say for my key elements. Then I start finding evidence and research on what I am writing about. After that I start to mess around with the order of how my paper will flow, then finally I type it all out and do corrections at the end before I submit it. I think I might use some outside sources not many to help support and better understand the historical, social, political and or economic part of the text.   

Feedback Strategies

I read How to craft constructive feedback article and it talked about two things that people who express there selfs want that is someone who is a witness and mirror. The three things that can help you do this is one observe, two describe, and three suggest. I believe this is the best way to go about giving feedback not like most people do were they only tell you what you have done wrong and don't help you improve in any way. I feel confident about going people feedback I just don't know if my feedback is very helpful. If I had strategy I could recommend this would be pretty close to it because I focus on how best to can help that person improve. When it comes to giving useful feedback I would like to improve on how I can give better feedback so the reader can improve with what I suggest.

Week 3 Analysis

"The Song of Ch’un-hyang, is also the most widely performed and best-loved example of Korea’s indigenous p’ansori narrative drama, wrapping a stunning indictment of the corruption of Korea’s elites within a compelling tale of romantic love, heroism, and fidelity" (you chin-han p.74). W
hen it first appeared it was in the 18th century. This was usually performed on an open stage most likely outside, during the 20th century. p'ansori was influenced by social changes that took place during chosen dynasty, this was around the time when confucianism was being spread and adopted. Choson confucianism focused on males having power in society and favored over women. This story attacks the ruling elite and the class system of there society. (you chin-han p.75)
The story The Song of Ch'un-hyang is set in cholla province, which tells the story of Ch'un-hyang who is a daughter of a aristocrat father and kisaeng (female entertainer) mother. There is also Master Yi Mong-ryong who is the son of a magistrate. They are both betrothed to each other. While Master yi is gone to test for a civil servant, ch'un-hyang vowed faithfulness to him. The new magistrate wants to make her into his concubine but she goes against him and doesn't follow his orders. So see was punished by getting beat close to death. In the end Master Yi passes the exam and goes back for ch'un-hyang.