The ideal form of government for Laozi is an invisible one. In chapter seventeen, Laozi states, "The greatest of rulers is but a shadowy presence". This does not mean Laozi thinks anarchy is the way to go but the action of wuiwei (nonaction) is. This idea of a simple form of government coincides with the idea of a simple life. Laozi believes only through such practices as stripping oneself from all excess desires and abandoning knowledge can one live a long lasting life.
The town that people under Laozi's ideal government lives in, is peaceful and quite (Laozi, 31), but not uninviting. Even though the citizens can hear their neighbors, they do not visit them (Laozi, 80). There is no army, as the military and use of violence are strongly looked down upon (Laozi, 30, 31). Chapter fifty-five is a passage that embodies Laozi's idea of an ideal citizen. It suggests that citizens should strip themselves of all unnatural desires to the point where they are like newborn children. Newborn children eat when they are hungry and sleep when they are tired. They only act upon their natural-born instincts. Their minds are not clouded with socially instilled desires because they are "perfectly pure" (Laozi, 55). Therefore, people who live under Laozi's ideal government are simplistic and act upon their natural, spontaneous human impulses. .
Furthermore, the citizens are illiterate (Laozi, 80) and unknowledgeable (Laozi, 20, 57, 65). Being unknowledgeable, they do not judge others or hold themselves superior to their neighbors because they do not make distinctions (Laozi, 1, 32). No "names" results in no robbers or thieves within the society because without names, objects are not valuable anymore. The citizens do not strive or pretend to be benevolent (Laozi, 38). Instead, they are naturally kind and considerate because that is a spontaneous human instinct (Laozi, 19). With all distinctions stripped, everyone is equal.
Again, this shows that the animals care about Boxer and are willing him to get better and retire happily. ... The pigs' half attempt at saving Boxer shows how ignorant they are as they are losing an important member of the group. ...
As the journey is coming to end and seems as if Eurydice and Orpheus will be returning and be happily together once again, filled with excitement Orpheus looks back when Eurydice is not quite done exiting the gates and only a "farewell" was heard as Eurydice was sucked back into the underworld forever. ... She does not understand that all Orpheus was trying to do was become one with her again so that he and she may live happily ever after. ... To call Orpheus not a hero because at the end of his journey he did not win in getting Eurydice back to the upper world is ignorant. ...
Sometimes we ignorantly base our view of the world on things we have seen on television shows or in Cleofilas case, telénovelas. ... On the way to Seguin, Cleofilas notices that the name of the arroyo they pass is called La Gritona-Woman Hollering' and she can't help but think "such a funny name for a creek so pretty and full of happily ever after- (222). ... Cleofilas only way of escape, is imagining the creek winding down to a place that may carry a brighter future, or a happily ever after. ...
In the first book of "The Iliad", humility is presented as a human value that would help anyone to avoid becoming or remaining as an arrogant and ignorant person. ... "Daughter, is it not my duty to see you happily settled? ...
Women were subject to constant sexual harassment in bars and hotels but at the time it was considered normal, just a male instinct that society ignorantly accepted. ... None of the lower class women even knew about social lives, since their goal in life was to find a wealthy man, get married, have kids and "live happily ever after." ...
Manuel, Buck's abductor, Red Sweater, the man who enforces the law of the club, Franzois, the original driver of the sled team, Perrault, the superior to Franzois, Hal the ignorant owner of Buck, and John Thorton, Buck's rescuer are other important characters. ... On the peaceful acres of Santa Clara, Buck lives happily and freely with Judge Miller. ... She made females seem weak and ignorant when faced with the responsibility of surviving in the wild. She was ignorant because she failed to realize that all luxuries were lost when you were in the wild. ...
The belief that both are necessary for one to grow up in a stable household is old-fashioned and ignorant. ... (Pg-92) This perverse and cruel regime, orchestrated by the Gilead rulers and happily carried out by an assemblage of Aunts, is of course designed to alienate the women from their contemporaries, "Friendships were suspicious, we knew it"(Pg-29); "This weeks Janine doesn't wait for us to jeer at her. ... We as a society have come to terms with the fact that it is not a women's fault if she gets raped and those that believe so are ignorant. ...
Chaucer does it through the Wife of Bath as a medium to reach the hopelessly ignorant women of the time should they hear of the tale. ... Through the use of sex and a knack for charming rich old men she then lives happily ever after off of their riches. ... She is saying that women are ignorant and that they apply their fantasies to their lives and husbands despite how untrue they are. ...
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is a complex novel that was written during the age of Romanticism. It contains many typical themes of a common Romantic novel such as dark laboratories, the moon, and a monster. Frankenstein, however, is anything but a common novel. The "monster" in this novel may not...