The following two works are written by Sophocles.
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Walking With Him Until I Am Not
Sophocles
2 responses to “Sophocles”
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Brief Plot of Madame Bovary (包法利夫人)
Author
Gustave Flaubert(福樓拜)
Born: 12 December 1821 Rouen, France
Died:8 May 1880 (aged 58) Rouen, France
Occupation: Novelist, playwright
Nationality: French
Genres: Fictional prose
Literary movement: Realism, RomanticismPlot
Part One
1. Charles Bovary’s childhood, student days
2. First marriage, Charles meets Rouault and his daughter Emma
3. Charles proposes to Emma
4. The wedding
5. The new household at Tostes
6. An account of Emma’s childhood and secret fantasy world
7. Emma becomes bored; invitation to a ball by the Marquis d’Andervilliers
8. The ball at the château La Vaubyessard
9. Emma follows fashions; her boredom concerns Charles, and they decide to move; they find out she is pregnantPart Two
1. Emma meets Léon Dupuis, the lawyer’s clerk
2. Emma gives birth to Berthe, visits her at the nurse’s house with Léon
3. A card game; Emma’s friendship with Léon grows
4. Emma visits the priest Bournisien; Berthe is injured; Léon leaves for Paris
5. Rodolphe woos Emma
6. Emma crosses paths with Binet; Rodolphe gets nervous; a letter from her father makes Emma repent
7. Rodolphe runs away; Emma falls gravely ill
8. Emma meets Léon at performance of Lucie de LammermoorPart Three
1. Emma goes to Homais; Bovary senior has died
2. She visits Léon in Rouen
3. She resumes “piano lessons” on Thursdays
4. Visits to Léon; the singing tramp; Emma starts to fiddle the accounts
5. Emma becomes noticeably anxious; debts spiral out of control
6. Emma begs for money from several people
7. Rodolphe cannot help; she swallows arsenic; her death
8. Emma lies in state
9. The funeral
10. Charles finds letter; his death -
Brief Plot of Tartuffe (偽君子)
A. Military
B. Generosity vs. parsimony
Machiavelli summarizes that guarding against the people’s hatred is more important than building up a reputation for generosity. A wise prince should be willing to be more reputed a miser than be hated for trying to be too generous.
C. Cruelty vs. mercy
It would be best to be both loved and feared, but since the two rarely come together. Anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.
D. Prince is praised for keeping his word
A Prince, should only keep his word when it suits his purposes, but do his utmost to maintain the illusion that he does keep his word and that he is reliable in that regard.
E. Avoiding contempt and hatred
A prince should command respect through his conduct, because a prince that is highly respected by his people is unlikely to face internal struggles
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