The Peony Pavilion : Chinese Play By Tang Xianzu

The Jade Peony represents the love that the grandmother had for the object and how she had it with her. The Jade Peony I believe also demonstrates the past present and the future of where her family is heading. The Jade Peony is important to Poh Poh,s past because it reminds her of her homeland and culture Back in China. The present is represented through the Jade Peony by now having

American Translation, the prologue talks about a daughter who invited her mother to check her new bedroom. However, her mother kind of overly reacted when she saw a mirror at the foot of her bed, so her mother puts another mirror, which faced the original one because she thought that this would multiply her “peach blossom luck”.

The poem "A Song of Changgan" is very poignant, as it starts with a bashful girl who does not even smile around her husband and ends with her almost heartbroken, as her husband is far away. The poem shows the different stages of the relationship of the speaker and her husband, and it is an excellent example of long-distance relationships before modern communication systems.

She ran over to the thing she hated the most, her neighbor’s beautiful marigold flower garden. Her being in poverty caused her animosity towards the floral field. The marigolds shone a light of hope on her ugly town, which ruined its darkness of despair. So she violently pulled out each flower and along with it, her adolescent feelings. This defining moment left Lizabeth with nothing but maturity, and was finally able to move forward to come of age without her childhood self pulling her

❖ The Jade Peony The major symbol in this novel is the Jade Peony. It is Poh Poh's most valued possession. She passed it to Sek Lung after her death. The Jade Peony symbolized Old China's culture and traditions. The Jade Peony was there for Sek Lung to keep his culture in Canada. It reminds all the people in this novel of their cultural roots.

The theme of “Marigolds” is maturation leads to deeper understanding of life. The theme of “Marigolds” demonstrates Lizabeth's change in attitude throughout the story just as maturation affects every modern

This book report is an analysis of the Egyptian Love Poem [ My god, my Lotus…], from the book, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Volume A. Egyptian Love Poems date back to 1300-1100 B.C.E., they were written on papyri, potsherd, and flakes of limestone. Papyri are a sheet-like material that was made out of pithy stems from a water plant. Which was used to write or paint on in the ancient Mediterranean world, potsherd is pieces of broken ceramic material. The lovers in Egyptian Love Poems are young and tend to be under parental supervision, half the poem is spoken by the girl and the other half by the boy. [ My god, my Lotus…] uses imagery to describe the desires of love and how different types of love function within modern societies. This poem displays different perspectives of love and the reality of how love is viewed in most civilizations. Readers will learn that love is not exclusive to men and women, and how different forms of love can lead them to overcoming life obstacles.

Ceres set into a slight panic gathered herself and set out to find Petunia. Ceres walked around to the seaside only to be met with nothing, causing her to become more frantic; thoughts racing through her head, the last place she could think to look is the forest. Ceres quickly ran towards the forest just a few ways down. She called out to her daughter, “Petunia! Petunia are you out there?!” trampling through bushes and running over shrubs, but then beautiful flowers started to come around. Ceres ceased her running which turned to cautious pacing, her daughter had to be around here somewhere, Petunia always loved beautiful flowers. A few more steps in front of her was her daughter, taking the hand of a mysterious man in a chariot, the man was gloomy yet handsome. Ceres yelled out for her to stop, “Petunia don’t!” but it was too late, the man along with Ceres’ daughter rode off in the distance at an incredible speed. All Ceres could do was shout in despair as her daughter was taken away.

Our society’s gender roles are constantly evolving and changing, all in the name of “progressive thinking”, though not all for the good. With a new “social norm” appearing every few years or so, it comes as a surprise that it

What is the reason behind the closing of Manila Metropolitan Theatre? What are the details about the restoration of the Metropolitan Theatre? Why is MET considered as a cultural heritage?

The song “ The Rose” by Bette Midler is some sort similar to the chapter the “ The Red Candle.” In the chapter “The Red Candle” it talks about a girl named Lindo Jong, which is forced to marry a boy from another family, that she doesn’t like. In song it talks about different types of love gentle love like a flower, sharp love like a razor and soothing love like a river. I think in this situation in the book love is like a razor, because their love is not really and it is cutting her up inside. The part that is like the razor is “ Of course, now I know the tree-trunked lady was the old village matchmaker, and the other was Huang Taitai, the mother of the boy I would be forced to marry.” The song sort of similar to this scene, because it talks

The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow sari preparing to meet her future husband by bathing in a lake. She describes the yellow sari as a sunflower after rain. Yellow here could possible signify new times to come or peace. The bath she was taking is relaxing her to the idea that she is about to marry a man she has not even met, as well as the thought of losing her

One of China’s most popular love comedies, The Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang Ji) by Wang Shifu (1250-1300) dramatizes a scholar-and-beauty romance. Zhang Sheng, a promising student, and Cui Yingying, a beautiful maiden, meet in a temple, fall in love at first sight and after a series of thwarted attempts, they end up happily marrying each other, after the student has passed the civil exam as the top one, of course. Among the five books of The Story of the Western Wing, Book III stands out in the very middle of the whole play with interesting characteristics in terms of both theatrical features and thematic complexity. First of all, while dan and sheng share most of the

As act I of “A Doll’s House” begins, the scene is set to impress the audience “with vivid descriptions of a room “furnished with taste, but nothing too extravagant”. (Ibsen) The first to enter is Nora. Nora walks in with her arms full of bags after shopping, and her husband, Torvald calls from another room to make sure it is her he hears coming through the door. Torvald sets limits on Nora’s spending; he treats her as both a child and a doll. The way in which the characters in the play treat, and react to one another, shows the selfish intentions in which the expectations of society hold of them.

The theater that Cuthbert Burbage built for the Chamberlain's Men had a total capacity of between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. Because there was no lighting, all performances at the Globe were conducted, weather permitting, during the day (probably most often in the mid-afternoon span between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M.). Because most of the Globe and all of its stage was open air, acoustics were poor and the actors were compelled by circumstances to shout their lines, stress their enunciation, and engage in exaggerated theatrical gestures. What would seem most striking to a modern (Broadway) theatergoer about the productions staged at the Globe is that they were completely devoid of background scenery. Although costumes