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After learning the background history of the early seventeenth centery, I realized that religion was a big issue during that time period for the English people.The conflict between catholic and christian kept going on with their hatred toward each other. The tension built higher and higher,eventually led to the"Gunpowder Plot" the history would be total different if those disaffected catholics did success, it would have eliminated much of England's ruling class in a single tremendousexplosion,leaving the land vulnerable to invasion by a foreign, catholic power. Many religious problems also exist to people. such as, how should public worship be conducted? How should the Script be understood?  How should people pray?What happened to people's souls after they died?

In my opinion, the celemony of worship should be conducted separately. It would be hard to find the balance since catholic and christian have different definition on the same matter of Bible. Since  the worship celemony are hold separately, both the catholic and the christian can have their own explanationon the Script to their own believers. As for praying, I think both catholic and christian pray in a kind similiar way, they whisper they prayers their God (some of them say it in their heart without making any sound). so pray should not be a big problem for them unless they were looking for the absoute rule in praying.  what would happen to people after they die? This I cannot answer; maybe there's nothing, maybe a heaven for good people to go, a hell for bad ones. Nobody on the earth really knows; but for either a catholic or a christian, there must be an after life waiting after he or she dies. The most pratical thing to so is to stay faithful to their only God.

Today during the class we discussed about our own reflection of The memoirs of geisha. Some of my classmates have very interesting point of view in

our discussion. For example, someone doubt the relationship between the geisha and her danna is the same as a prostitute and his/her pimp. In some

In this chapter so far, I've only learn some historical events of James I since we had a english professor gave us a lecture during the class.

James I was not an ideal king for England compare with Queen Elizabeth I. He was a wasting king, put the money on his  queen, his son and lots of

The memoirs of a Geisha was a memoir of a Geisha named Sayuri(Chiyo). The story started with her being a little girl was sold to Kyoto with her sister.

luckier than her sister, she was sent into a Geisha house as a servant girl. In the beginning she all her want was to escape to find her sister, but soon

What I remember most after the class is the family of  Elizabeth. She was the second daughter of Henry VIII, her sister was the famous "Bloody Mary" and the young knig Edward was her younger brother. They all came from different mothers, Henry divorced his first wife, the mother of Mary, because she didn't give him a boy to succeed to the throne. It was then, he declared that he and England will not be a part of Catholic since the Catholic don't approve of divorce. (it's kinda funny that a man changed history only because he wanted a son.) Finally, his third wife born him a son. BUT... after Henry VIII passed away, Edward died soon after his father, he was a knig of short period. Soon after that, Mary became the Queen of England since she was the oldest heir left. Mary's religion was differnt from her father and sister, she was a religious Catholic. This might related to her mother, because her mother was divorced, it is reasonable that she's a catholic who disapprove of divorce. In the view of  Catholic, Mary is maybe the only legal heir of the throne. Elizabeth was not a legal heir because she was born as Christian.  Even though Mary didn't want to give the throne to a Christian, she had no choice. Elizabeth eventually became the Queen of England and lead her country to prosperity.

關於 The Defense of Poetry 這一課我比較了解的是作者寫它的背景吧，是為了反駁Gosson對於作家還有詩人的批判所以Sidney才寫出了這個作品，至於作品的內容我就真的不了解了。上課的時候內容只由老師說明了一下，這一課還跟Amoretti 一起在同一次上，總覺得有點囫圇吞棗的感覺，才一知半解就要寫期末了，哎哎哎哎~~~~真希望以後不要再這樣啦!

Amoretti 的內容是由許多不同的小詩構成的，聽到老師說這裡的詩是比較屬於Happy Ending 讓我有一種鬆一口氣的感覺~因為之前Earl of Surrey 的詩真的都比較偏向作者心碎呀什麼之類的，因為詩本身就沒有很容易了如果讀到最後結局很憂鬱~會讓讀的人更難讀下去吧~讀詩的時候也會覺得上下文好像沒有什麼邏輯觀念，從一個點又忽然跳到另一個點很突兀，上一句跟下一句不一定有什麼關聯

而且期末題目又要翻譯，真是困擾呢 : (

其實在Farrie Queen中有一個部份我不是很了解，就是第47小段的地方，忽然有一個Genius 出現，他到底是誰我到現在都還不知道~XD  哈哈~因為這段是我報告的所以有點愧疚啦~讀的時候一直看一直看但都還是不了解，就只好先跳過它繼續看下去囉。不過這個故事有點不太真實，因為如果是真人去面對這些挑戰的話應該早就被誘惑了吧(尤其是男生XD) 可能是為了要朔造一個騎士的形象吧~ 但也多虧了Plamer 騎士到最後才沒有功虧一簣失敗，此時我們就知道身邊有一個明辨是非的朋友的重要啦 (XD~很奇怪的結尾)

在上了一整個學期的英美小說後，最後一節課是以The Art of Loving 作為結束，這本書還蠻有意思的~分析出人的愛是有很多不同的種類，這學期偏重的是Erotic Love 也就是情欲肉體上的愛，這似乎是真正愛情中不可或缺的一部分-和另一半結合成一為一個個體。上課時也有同學提出真正的愛不一定需要肉體上的結合，可以是一種精神上的愛，一種單純的喜歡。如果真的有這種關係存在的話我覺得還蠻有趣的，會想要想了解這兩種愛(精神上和肉體上)的不同，真不知道哪天才可以親眼了解呀XD~

在這學期英美小說讀的書裡面，我第二喜歡的就是The Lover 了(第一名是 The bridges to Madison County) 詳細的理由我自己也說不出為什麼~說不定是因為這本小說的女主角跟我們的年紀比較相近吧，和家人在異鄉生活一定很苦，尤其是在家庭不溫暖的狀況下，沒有辦法在自己最親近的人身上得到依靠~所以我可以諒解她為什麼會和這個中國男人牽連，雖然這個男人沒有辦法給她任何承諾，但至少他可以提供這少女暫時的溫暖以及庇護，如果我是主角的話，說不定我也會做一樣的事