TalksWithKam

                                                   Love or Abuse?        The Tale of Genji was very interesting to read. The story expresses how a woman who did not have any high ranking was chosen by the Emperor although he had a first wife. The Emperor favorited this woman and believed she was the most beautiful one of them all. The Emperor kept her very close to hm and wanted her to be attached to the hip. It was very discomforting for her to live in the house because all of the other women were jealous of her, and I can imagine she felt suffocated because of the position the Emperor had over her. She became very depressed to the point where she wasn't eating and she started to decline, throughout the story she even looked frail, and her face seemed skinny. The Emperor impregnated the woman and that's...

 1. Aristotle refers to pity and fear because in his opinion a tragedy must have a change from good to bad fortune, resulting not from badness one that arises from the action themselves. 2. Aristotle believes that tragedy it imitates an action, it arouses pity and fear, it displays the human image as such, it ends in wonder, and it is inherently beautiful. So, he doesn't necessarily categorize fear and pity to be the only feelings you feel because someone can also have feelings towards wonder and beauty. 3. Aristotle says that it is the mark of an educated person to know what needs explanation and what doesn’t. He does not try to prove that there is such a thing as nature, or motion. Likewise, he understands the recognition of a special and powerful form of drama built around pity and fear as the beginning of an inquiry and spends not one word justifying that restriction. We, however, can see better why he starts there by trying out a few simple alternatives. T...