Terell Thompson
In Saikaku’s, Life of a Sensuous Woman, the narrator is essentially in a constant dream state as she reflects on her past relationships, in which she was being controlled by men, in a nostalgic tone, while in contrast, Bartleby, in Bartleby the Scrivener, is living in his reality, in a waking state, as strange and quiet as he may be, in so few words he takes control of his own life by rejecting authority and stating what he honestly feels.
Mamasiray Camara
In Saikaku’s, Life of a Sensuous Woman, the narrator in this novel has a strong sense of reality throughout her relationship as she sees things for what they are conversely, in the novel Bartleby the Scrivener, Bartleby strays away from the reality of working on wall street thus living in a dream state.
Stacey Leatham
The narrator in Saikaku’s Life of a Sensuous Woman reverts to a dream-like state of mind when she evaluates her faux relationships, only to realize that what she has with these men are meaningless agreements whereas Bartleby in Bartleby the Scrivener reverts back to reality once he realized he didn’t want to be like every other worker who did whatever it is they were told like a robot.
Ruojun Zhao
Monkey dreams to be free but in fact he is confined with disciplines on the way to get the scriptures just as in Saikaku’s sensuous woman the narrator wants to live a stable life, but this is just a dream because she is financially poor and can only support her own life being a mistress.
4 responses so far ↓
m.camara // Mar 12th 2016 at 12:13 pm
Reply to Terell ,
your topic sentence was very well formulated and packed alot of information and detail. Great job.
s.leatham // Mar 12th 2016 at 12:17 pm
Reply to Mamasiray.
Our opposite views on which character is in a dream state and which character is not is very interesting but I can understand your point of view. Both characters switch between dream and reality so it really is open for interpretation. Good job!
t.thompson1 // Mar 12th 2016 at 12:26 pm
In response to Ruojun,
I think comparing the two on the aspect of restriction is interesting, but she was not only a mistress. So, you could have focused it more on her wanting to be free from her obsession with sensuality.
JMERLE // Mar 12th 2016 at 1:49 pm
I really like all of your topics. They are engaging and provocative. They could all be somewhat more focused, though, as they are all more like thesis statements than topic sentences. For example, in a topic sentence you need to pick a specific incident specific relationship for the woman, specific circumstance for Bartleby). Think about this further for the midterm.
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