In the Tale of Genji, we meet a Japanese prince by the name of Genji who over time, developed several relationships with the women of his village. These relationships were developed through his use of charm, his royal status and his good looks to pry into their hearts. These three characteristics he...
It contained several large streets all very much like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the pavements, to do the same work, and to whom everyday was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counter part of the last and the next." ... His theory of facts is important because later on in the book he will learn that what he thought was good for his children will be bad for them in the end. ...
This scene early in the book Linden Hills lays the groundwork for a journey through the neighborhood with Lester and his friend Willie that reveals the negative impact when a society focuses on things and status and loses touch with it's sense of community and family. ...
Women started to desire a chance to learn and to grow as normal, sound human beings. ... An author, Friedrich Engels, discussed in a book, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State about the evolution of marriage over time and how it evolved from generation to generation and how it all led to where marriages were in the 17th-19th centuries, which is important to understand as it helps shed light on the status of women. ...
