2017年6月7日 星期三
Approaches to Literature (week 16)
※Viola tricolor
Viola
tricolor, Also known as Johnny Jump up (though this name is also applied to
similar species such as the yellow pansy), heartsease, heart's ease, heart's
delight, tickle-my-fancy, Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, come-and-cuddle-me, three
faces in a hood, or love-in-idleness, is a common European wild flower, growing
as an annual or short-lived perennial. It has been introduced into North
America, where it has spread. It is the progenitor of the cultivated pansy, and
is therefore sometimes called wild pansy; before the cultivated pansies were
developed, "pansy" was an alternative name for the wild form.
※Closet Drama
A
closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read
by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. The dichotomy
between private 'closet' drama (designed for reading) and public 'stage' drama
(designed for performance in a commercial theater setting) dates from the late
eighteenth century. The practice of circulating plays in written form (printed
or handwritten) for literary audiences predates this period, however.
United
States Constitution The United States
Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. The
Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national
frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the
separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three
branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive,
consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court
and other federal courts. Articles Four, Five and Six entrench concepts of
federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments and
of the states in relationship to the federal government. Article Seven
establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it.
※Hyppolyta
In
Classical Greek mythology, Hippolyta was the Amazonian queen who possessed a
magical girdle that was given to her by her father, Ares, the god of war. The
girdle was a waist belt that signified her authority as queen of the Amazons.
She figures prominently in the myths of both Heracles and Theseus. As such, the
myths about her are varied enough that they may be about several different
women.
※The Five Part of Plot
Exposition:
Beginning of the Story
The
exposition is the beginning of the story and prepares the way for upcoming
events. In the exposition, the author introduces the major characters,
establishes the setting and reveals major conflicts in the story. The author
often discusses the characters' backstory, so readers gain insight as to why
characters act or respond as they do. For example, the exposition in "The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain centers on the introduction
of Huckleberry Finn, an adolescent who's unhappy living with a strict widow,
and has a shallow relationship with his greedy, unfit father. The setting is
the mid-1800s in a small river town along the Mississippi River; the conflict
revolves around Huck's desire to experience adventure, and his running away.
The exposition sets the stage for his tumultuous, life-changing journey on a
riverboat.
Rising
Action
The
rising action occurs when the main problem or conflict is addressed with a form
of action. The rising action always leads up to the climax. During the rising
action, the protagonist often encounters some sort of crisis that creates
tension. For example, in "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner, the
rising action occurs when Thomas -- the protagonist -- enters the maze to try
to escape his prison-like existence and save his friends.
Climax
or Turning Point
The
climax is the pivotal point in the story when the protagonist deals with the
culmination of events. The climax often centers on the protagonist's most
difficult challenge or bleakest moment, according to Pasadena City College. For
example, in "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins, the climax occurs
when Katniss and Peeta -- the primary protagonists -- decide to eat poisonous
berries and commit double suicide, rather than kill one another. The climax is
the most exciting part of the story and initiates a turning point in the
characters' lives.
Falling
Action
The
falling action occurs immediately after the climax and details the consequences
-- good or bad -- that the characters must deal with after the turning point of
events. It leads up to the resolution and sets the stage for the final chapter
of the story. For example, in "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee,
the falling action occurs when the antagonist, Bob Ewell, assaults two of the
primary protagonists -- Scout and Jem Finch -- and the town recluse saves the
children by killing Ewell. The altercation is a direct result of the climax --
Ewell wants revenge after the children's father, an attorney, defends an
innocent black man and rebukes Ewell for lying about the case and mistreating
his own daughter.
Resolution:
End of the Story
The
resolution tells us what happens to the characters after the conflict is
resolved. All the loose ends are tied up, unless the author plans to write a
sequel and purposely leaves room for further plot developments. Some stories
have happy endings; others have sad endings. The resolution leaves readers with
a sense of closure, so they understand the fate of the protagonists and
antagonists.
※Thirteenth Amendment to
the United
The Thirteenth
Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery
and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it
was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31,
1865. The amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December
6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed
its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted
following the American Civil War.
text
Section
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
legislation.
※A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A
Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96.
It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens,
to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. These include the adventures of
four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals)
who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in
which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular
works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
plot
The
play consists of four interconnecting plots, connected by a celebration of the
wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta, which is set
simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland, under the light
of the moon.
The
play opens with Hermia, who is in love with Lysander, resistant to her father
Egeus' demand that she wed Demetrius, whom he has arranged for her to marry.
Helena meanwhile pines unrequitedly for Demetrius. Enraged, Egeus invokes an
ancient Athenian law before Duke Theseus, whereby a daughter must marry the
suitor chosen by her father, or else face death. Theseus offers her another
choice: lifelong chastity while worshipping the goddess Artemis as a nun.
※Late fragment
BY
Raymond Carver
And
did you get what
you
wanted from this life, even so?
I
did.
And
what did you want?
To
call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved
on the earth.
※vocabulary
commencement(n.) late 13c., "beginning,"
from Old French comencement "beginning, start" (Modern French commencement),
from comencier (see commence). Meaning "school graduation ceremony"
attested by 1850, American English. (Sense "entrance upon the privileges
of a master or doctor in a university" is from late 14c.)
I
know what you are thinking of -- the class members grouped in a semicircle on
the stage, the three scared boys in new ready-made black suits, the seventeen
pretty girls in fluffy white dresses (the gowns of the year), each senior
holding a ribbon-tied manuscript bulging with thoughts on "Beyond the Alps
Lies Italy," "Our Ship is Launched -- Whither Shall it Sail?"
and similar topics. [Charles Moreau Harger, "The Real Commencement,"
"New Outlook," May 8, 1909]
elegy(n.) 1510s, from Middle French elegie, from
Latin elegia, from Greek elegeia ode "an elegaic song," from elegeia,
fem. of elegeios "elegaic," from elegos "poem or song of
lament," later "poem written in elegiac verse," which is of
uncertain origin, perhaps from a Phrygian word. Related: Elegiast.
eulogy(n.) mid-15c., from Latin eulogium, from Greek
eulogia "praise; good or fine language" (in New Testament,
"blessing"), from eu "well" (see eu-) + -logia
"speaking" (see -logy). Eu legein meant "speak well of."
preach(v.) at first in late Old English predician, a
loan word from Church Latin; reborrowed 12c. as preachen, from Old French
preechier "to preach, give a sermon" (11c., Modern French précher),
from Late Latin praedicare "to proclaim publicly, announce" (in
Medieval Latin "to preach"), from Latin prae "before" (from
PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "in front of, before")
+ dicare "to proclaim, to say" (from PIE root *deik- "to
show," also "pronounce solemnly"). Related: Preached; preaching.
To preach to the converted is recorded from 1867 (form preach to the choir
attested from 1979).
Approaches to Literature (week 15)
※Walt Whitman
Walter
"Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. A
humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and
realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most
influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.
His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection
Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
※Emily Dickinson
Emily
Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. With the possible exception of Walt
Whitman, Dickinson is now recognized as the most important American poet of the
19th century. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a
prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her
life in reclusive isolation. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven
years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Considered an eccentric by
locals, she developed a noted penchant for white clothing and became known for
her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom.
Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended
entirely upon correspondence. Dickinson was a recluse for the later years of
her life.
※Phallus
A
phallus is a penis, especially when erect, an object that resembles a penis, or
a mimetic image of an erect penis.
Any
object that symbolically—or, more precisely, iconically—resembles a penis may
also be referred to as a phallus; however, such objects are more often referred
to as being phallic. Such symbols often represent fertility and cultural
implications that are associated with the male sexual organ, as well as the
male orgasm.
※Amherst, Massachusetts
The
town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of
Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The name of the town is
pronounced without the h ("AM-erst"), giving rise to the local
saying, "only the 'h' is silent", in reference both to the
pronunciation and to the town's politically active populace.
The
communities of Amherst Center, North Amherst, and South Amherst are
census-designated places.
Amherst
is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lying
18 miles (28.9 km) northeast of the city of Springfield, Amherst is considered
the northernmost town in the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor
Metropolitan Region.
history
The
earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of
purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three
native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont, and Chickwalopp.[7]
According to the deed, "ye Indians of Nolwotogg (Norwottuck) upon ye River
of Quinecticott (Connecticut)" sold the entire area in exchange for
"two Hundred fatham of Wampam & Twenty fatham, and one large Coate at
Eight fatham wch Chickwollop set of, of trusts, besides severall small
giftes" [sic]. Amherst celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2009. The
Amherst 250th Anniversary Celebration Committee was established to oversee the
creation and implementation of townwide activities throughout 2009. The Amherst
Historical Society also organized events, including a book published by them
and written by Elizabeth M. Sharpe, Amherst A to Z.
Amherst
was first visited by Europeans as early as 1665 when Nathaniel Dickinson (the
great great grandfather of poet, Emily Dickinson) surveyed the lands for its
mothertown Hadley. The first permanent English settlements arrived in 1727. It
gained precinct status in 1734 and eventually township in 1759.
When
it incorporated, the colonial governor assigned the town the name Amherst after
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst. Many colonial governors at the time
scattered his name amidst the influx of new town applications, which is why
several towns in the Northeast bear the name. Amherst was a hero of the French
and Indian War who, according to popular legend, singlehandedly won Canada for
the British and banished France from North America. Popular belief has it that
he supported the American side in the Revolutionary war and resigned his
commission rather than fight for the British. Baron Amherst actually remained
in the service of the Crown during the war—albeit in Great Britain rather than
North America—where he organized the defense against the proposed
Franco-Spanish Armada of 1779. Nonetheless, his previous service in the French
and Indian War meant he remained popular in New England. Amherst is also
infamous for recommending, in a letter to a subordinate, the use of
smallpox-covered blankets in warfare against the Native Americans along with
any "other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race".
For this reason, there have been occasional ad hoc movements to rename the
town. Suggested new names have included "Emily", after Emily
Dickinson.
※The Great Gatsby
The
Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald
that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on
prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the
young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and
obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be
Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,
idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a
portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a
cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
plot
The
main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. Nick Carraway, a
Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest—who serves as the
novel's narrator—takes a job in New York as a bond salesman. He rents a small
house on Long Island, in the fictional village of West Egg, next door to the
lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who holds extravagant
parties but does not participate in them. Nick drives around the bay to East
Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy Fay Buchanan, and her husband,
Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick's. They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an
attractive, cynical young golfer with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship.
She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the
"valley of ashes", an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and
New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City
with Tom and Myrtle to an apartment Tom keeps for his affairs with Myrtle and
others. At Tom's New York apartment, a vulgar and bizarre party takes place. It
ends with Tom breaking Myrtle's nose after she annoys him by saying Daisy's
name several times..
※The Great Gatsby(2013
film)
The
Great Gatsby is a 2013 Australian-American period drama film based on F. Scott
Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. The film was co-written and directed
by Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as the eponymous Jay Gatsby, with
Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Elizabeth Debicki in
supporting roles. Production began in 2011 and took place in Australia, with
$105 million budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay
Gatsby and his neighbor Nick (Maguire), who recounts his encounter with Gatsby
at the height of the Roaring Twenties in New York state.
The
film polarized critics, receiving both praise and criticism for its acting
performances, soundtrack, visual style, and direction. Audiences responded much
more positively, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the film,
stating "Scott would have been proud." As of 2016, it is Baz
Luhrmann's highest-grossing film, having earned over $350 million worldwide. At
the 86th Academy Awards, the film won in both of its nominated categories: Best
Production Design and Best Costume Design.
※Because I could not stop
for Death
BY
Emily Dickinson
Because
I could not stop for Death –
He
kindly stopped for me –
The
Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And
Immortality.
We
slowly drove – He knew no haste
And
I had put away
My
labor and my leisure too,
For
His Civility –
We
passed the School, where Children strove
At
Recess – in the Ring –
We
passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We
passed the Setting Sun –
Or
rather – He passed us –
The
Dews drew quivering and chill –
For
only Gossamer, my Gown –
My
Tippet – only Tulle –
We
paused before a House that seemed
A
Swelling of the Ground –
The
Roof was scarcely visible –
The
Cornice – in the Ground –
Since
then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels
shorter than the Day
I
first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were
toward Eternity –
※Somewhere I have never
travelled, gladly beyond
BY
E.E. Cummings
somewhere
I have never travelled,gladly beyond
any
experience,your eyes have their silence:
in
your most frail gesture are things which enclose me
or
which I cannot touch because they are too near
your
slightest look easily will unclose me
though
I have closed myself as fingers
you
open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching
skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or
if your wish be to close me, I and
my
life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as
when the heart of this flower imagines
the
snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing
which we are to perceive in this world equals
the
power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels
me with the color of its countries
rendering
death and forever with each breathing
(i
do not know what it is about you that closes
and
opens;only something in me understands
the
voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not
even the rain,has such small hands
※Bread - If
If
a picture paints a thousand words,
Then
why can't I paint you?
The
words will never show the you I've come to know.
If
a face could launch a thousand ships,
Then
where am I to go?
There's
no one home but you,
You're
all that's left me to.
And
when my love for life is running dry,
You
come and pour yourself on me.
If
a man could be two places at one time,
I'd
be with you.
Tomorrow
and today, beside you all the way.
If
the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die,
I'd
spend the end with you.
And
when the world was through,
Then
one by one the stars would all go out,
Then
you and I would simply fly away
Approaches to Literature (week 14)
※Dover Beach
"Dover
Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first
published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its
composition may have begun as early as 1849. The most likely date is 1851. The
title, locale and subject of the poem's descriptive opening lines is the shore
of the English ferry port of Dover, Kent, facing Calais, France, at the Strait
of Dover, the narrowest part (21 miles) of the English Channel, where Arnold
honeymooned in 1851.
※Carpe diem
Carpe
diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated "seize the day", taken
from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes (23 BC).
※Hypothesis
A
hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For
a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that
one can test it. Scientists generally base scientific hypotheses on previous
observations that cannot satisfactorily be explained with the available
scientific theories. Even though the words "hypothesis" and
"theory" are often used synonymously, a scientific hypothesis is not
the same as a scientific theory. A working hypothesis is a provisionally accepted
hypothesis proposed for further research.
※Brothers Grimm
The
Brothers Grimm , Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German
academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who
together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the 19th
century. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and
popularized stories such as "Cinderella" ("Aschenputtel"),
"The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkönig"), "The Goose-Girl"
("Die Gänsemagd"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hänsel und
Gretel"), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin"
("Rumpelstilzchen"),"Sleeping Beauty"
("Dornröschen"), and "Snow White"
("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's
and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.
Cronus In Greek mythology, Cronus, or Kronos , was
the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine
descendants of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth. He overthrew his father
and ruled during the mythological Golden Age, until he was overthrown by his
own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus. According to Plato, Phorcys, Cronus
and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys. Cronus was usually
depicted with a harpe, scythe or a sickle, which was the instrument he used to
castrate and depose Uranus, his father. In Athens, on the twelfth day of the
Attic month of Hekatombaion, a festival called Kronia was held in honour of
Cronus to celebrate the harvest, suggesting that, as a result of his
association with the virtuous Golden Age, Cronus continued to preside as a
patron of harvest. Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the
Roman deitySaturn.
※Cerberus
In
Greek mythology, Cerberus , often called the "hound of Hades", is the
monstrous multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent
the dead from leaving. Cerberus was the offspring of the monsters Echidna and
Typhon, and usually is described as having three heads, a serpent for a tail,
and snakes protruding from parts of his body. Cerberus is primarily known for
his capture by Heracles, one of Heracles' twelve labours.
※ Danae
In
Greek mythology, Danaë was the daughter, and only child of King Acrisius of
Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice. She was the mother of the hero Perseus by
Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the
Bronze Age.
※The Wolf and the Seven
Young Kids
"The
Wolf and the Seven Young Goats" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers
Grimm, tale number 5. It is Aarne-Thompson type 123, but has a strong
resemblance to The Three Little Pigs and other Aarne-Thomspson type 124
folktales, and to the variant of Little Red Riding Hood that the Grimms
collected, where she is rescued.
synopsis
A
mother goat leaves her seven children at home while she ventures into the
forest to find food. Before she leaves, she warns her young about the Big Bad
Wolf who will try to sneak into the house and gobble them up. The wolf will
pretend to be their mother and convince the kids to open the door. The young
children will be able to recognize their true mother by her white feet and
sweet voice.
The
mother goat leaves and the seven kids stay in the house. Before long, they hear
a voice at the door that says "Let me in children, your mother has
something for each and every one of you". His gruff voice betrays him and
the kids do not let him in. The wolf goes to a market and steals some honey to
soften his voice. A little while later, the kids hear another voice at the
door: "Let me in children, your mother has something for each and every
one of you". This time the voice is high and sweet like their mother's.
They are about to let him in when the youngest kid looks under the crack in the
door and notices the wolf's big, black feet. They refuse to open the door, and
the wolf goes away again.
The
wolf goes to the bakery and steals some flour, smearing it all over his coat,
turning his black feet white. He returns to the children's house, and says
"Let me in children, your mother has something for each and every one of
you". The kids see his white feet and hear his sweet voice, so they open
the door. The wolf jumps into the house and gobbles up six of the kids. The
youngest child hides from the wolf in the grandfather clock and does not get
eaten.
Later
that day, the mother goat returns home from the forest. She is distraught to
find the door wide open and all but one of her children missing. She looks
around and sees the wolf, fast asleep under a tree. He had eaten so much, he
could not move. The mother goat calls to her youngest child to quickly get her
a pair of scissors, a needle and some thread. She cuts open the wolf's belly
and the six children spring out miraculously unharmed. They fill the wolf's
belly with rocks, and the mother sews it back up again. When the wolf wakes up,
he is very thirsty. He goes to the river to drink, but falls in and drowns
under the weight of the rocks. The Family lived happily ever after.
※Rapunzel
"Rapunzel"
is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and
first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales. The Grimm
Brothers' story is an adaptation of the fairy tale Rapunzel by Friedrich Schulz
published in 1790.[2] The Schulz version is based on Persinette by
Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force originally published in 1698 which in
turn was influenced by an even earlier tale, Petrosinella by Giambattista
Basile, published in 1634. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media
and its best known line ("Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair") is
an idiom of popular culture. In volume I of the 1812 annotations (Anhang), it
is listed as coming from Friedrich Schulz Kleine Romane, Book 5, pp. 269–288,
published in Leipzig 1790.
plot
A
lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an
evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated
with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel (or, in
most translated-to-English versions of the story, rampion), growing in the
garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. One night, her
husband breaks into the garden to get some for her. She makes a salad out of it
and greedily eats it. It tastes so good that she longs for more. So her husband
goes to get some more for her. As he scales the wall to return home, Dame
Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees
to be lenient, and allows him to take all the rapunzel he wants, on condition
that the baby be given to her when it's born. Desperate, he agrees. When his
wife has a baby girl, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her
Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most
beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she turns twelve, Dame
Gothel lockes her up inside a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither
stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. When she visits her, she
stands beneath the tower and calls out:
Rapunzel,
Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb thy golden stair.
One
day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the
tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the
tower, but is naturally unable to enter it. He returns often, listening to her
beautiful singing, and one day sees Dame Gothel visit, and thus learns how to
gain access to Rapunzel. When Dame Gothel leaves, he bids Rapunzel let her hair
down. When she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually
asks her to marry him. She agrees.
Together
they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night (thus avoiding
Dame Gothel who visits her by day), and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which
she will gradually weave into a ladder. Before the plan can come to fruition,
however, she foolishly gives him away. In the first edition of Grimm's Fairy
Tales, she innocently says that her dress is getting tight around her waist
(indicating pregnancy); in the second edition, she asks Dame Gothel (in a
moment of forgetfulness) why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than
her. In anger, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the
wilderness to fend for herself.
When
the prince calls that night, Dame Gothel lets the severed hair down to haul him
up. To his horror, he finds himself staring at her instead of Rapunzel, who is
nowhere to be found. When she tells him in a jealous rage that he will never
see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower and lands on some thorns, which
blind him.
For
months, he wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes
to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lives with the twins she has given birth
to, a boy and a girl. One day, as she sings, he hears her voice again, and they
are reunited. When they fall into each other's arms, her tears immediately
restore his sight. He leads her and their twins to his kingdom, where they live
happily ever after.
In
some versions of the story, Rapunzel's hair magically grows back after the
prince touches it.
Another
version of the story ends with the revelation that Dame Gothel had untied
Rapunzel's hair after the prince leapt from the tower, and it slipped from her
hands and landed far below, leaving her trapped in the tower.
※Tangled
Tangled
is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy-comedy film produced by
Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Loosely
based on the German fairy tale "Rapunzel" in the collection of folk
tales published by the Brothers Grimm, it is the 50th Disney animated feature film.
Featuring the voices of Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, the film tells the story
of a lost, young princess with long magical hair who yearns to leave her
secluded tower. Against her mother's wishes, she accepts the aid of a handsome
intruder to take her out into the world which she has never seen.
plot
Long
ago, a drop of sunlight became a golden flower capable of healing illness,
decay, and injury. Hundreds of years later, the flower is still used by Mother
Gothel to retain her youth, until soldiers from nearby kingdom, Corona, steal
it to heal their ailing queen. Shortly afterwards, the Queen gives birth to
Princess Rapunzel. While attempting to recover the flower, Gothel discovers
that Rapunzel's hair contains the flower's healing properties, and that cutting
her hair destroys its power. Gothel takes the baby and raises her as her own
daughter in an isolated tower. Once a year, the King and Queen release sky
lanterns on Rapunzel's birthday, hoping for their daughter's return.
※To the Virgins, to Make
Much of Time
BY
Robert Herrick
Gather
ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old
Time is still a-flying;
And
this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow
will be dying.
The
glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The
higher he’s a-getting,
The
sooner will his race be run,
And
nearer he’s to setting.
That
age is best which is the first,
When
youth and blood are warmer;
But
being spent, the worse, and worst
Times
still succeed the former.
Then
be not coy, but use your time,
And
while ye may, go marry;
For
having lost but once your prime,
You
may forever tarry.
※We ain’t getting any
younger
BY Jim James
You
got the whole wide world
They
got it from you
You
can talk about it all you want
But
what you gonna do
Time's
your oyster
The
grave is always getting closer
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
Looked
to roam
Went
too far
There
at the edge of the world
Things
went south
Down
and out
There
at the edge of the world
Seasons
changed
Time
got strange
There
at the edge of the world
We
got close to the source
For
better or worse
There
at the edge of the world
You
got the whole wide world
Laid
out in front of you
You
can talk about it all you want
But
what the fuck you're gonna do
Time's
your oyster
The
grave is always getting closer
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
We
ain't gettin' any younger
And
you take it for granted
Until
its taken away
We're
all pressed out the same mold
The
story's already been told
This
world is war and blood
When
it could have been love
When
it could have been love
And
all you learn to forget
That
this never happened
And
when the new world start again
Peace
ripped into pieces
Peace
ripped into pieces
Peace
ripped into pieces
Peace
ripped into pieces
We
gotta put it back together again
(Peace
ripped into pieces)
Put
it back together again
(Peace
ripped into pieces)
We
gotta put it back together again
(Peace
ripped into pieces)
Put
it back together again
(Peace
ripped into pieces)
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