Author: CLARE CHO

Montaigne has a good attitude toward life and death.  I like the approach that think of each day as the last day given to us. If we know how to live our lives and make our lives happy, we would know we would look like the moment we die. So we should able to make our own joy.  If we can make our own joy, we can pass through in any circumstance. It’s my philosophy toward my life.

The Book of the City of Ladies  by Christine de Pizan was written in medieval Europe, where the trend toward disrespect for women prevailed. The author of this work, Christine De Pijang, is the first female full-time writer to defend women’s authority and to try to escape men’s prejudices. When she was in the works, it was a difficult time for women not only for writing, but also for living by herself. Nevertheless, she continued to work with her beliefs.  She wanted to restore women’s self-esteem from the men’s criticism, and hope that women would fulfill their roles and responsibilities as members of society.

Virgil spent his youth in the end of Roman Republic, so he suffered tremendous fear and hatred because of the political turmoil and the battle of hegemony. He wasn’t healthy so he couldn’t join neither the military nor the politic. Virgil  never married and had lived as a hermit until he became famous as a poet. The author projects his hearts deepest wishes, desires though  Aeneid who is a hero. However, what makes this poem extraordinary among class poems is that it treats individual sacrifice and pain onto this poem as much as the public.

A questions arose that the Rome must be built even at a cost of a lover’s sacrifice? Aeneid would do the same thing if it was his daughter or son?  It would make me think what/why I’m doing now and what I would choose for the future.