Hi, ladies.
These days I have read the material of education in 19th century England which Plum gave us before, and I’m very confused about it, especially about religious dimension. Though Plum has already made several explanations for us, I don’t understand very much even now. It is probably because there are some different terms on the same religious thought. For example, Nonconformist, Dissenter, Methodist, Evangelical, Presbyterian, Baptist…In fact, I can’t realize those differences in spite of looking up each meaning in the dictionary.
In addition to this, more distinctions make things complicated. Class, race, region, political stance…I have difficulties in both profound British history and English. It seems much time for me to grasp the whole meaning. Still, I can enjoy the freshest experience in my life. Thank you very much, Plum, and dear friends…
So, see you later. Good bye.
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Hi, ladies!!!!
The last week was a hectic one to me, since I had to go out to teach for two consecutive days, but on Sunday I was tremendously delighted that I could watch the rest of the story, Bleak House, with four of my friends at my lounge and discussed a number of elements indicated in various episodes contained in that masterpiece produced by Charles Dickens.
Many contemporary feminists in the Western countries criticize Charles Dickens for his presentation of female characters in his novels. Now, I think we understand why they do so.
Nonetheless, many of his novels are full of energy, hope and future, although one of his main themes is life and death, or, evil and virtue, which is gravely serious but relatively understandable without much fuss to less educated beings of the lower classes in 19th century English society, to say nothing of us, to oriental readers, who have the least knowledge of Victorian English culture.
Anyway, it is marvelous that all of us enjoyed the rest of the movie. At first I anticipated that we might not finish watching it by the end of last Sunday afternoon, but luckily we could, which was a sort of relief to me.
I hope you are having a good time and will have a comfortable and brilliant evening, my dear friends. Night, night…
P. S.
The most impressive utterances in the movie to me are the quiet but so strong, whispering-like remarks by Lady Dedlock in the beginning of the story.
She says something like…
“I am bored to death with this house. I am bored to death with my life. I am bored to death with myself.”
This is foregrounding of her death that takes place toward the end of the story, I believe.
Hi, ladies!!!
Plum, thank you for your profound comments on Bleak House and Dicken's works. Lady Dedlock's uttering reminds me of her noble figure in DVD. Her pride might not allow her to live in being bored.
I'm eager to watch it, but I'm not sure I can understand the whole story without any explanations. I guess subtitles would help me a lot. Thank you so much. Good night, ladies.
Hi, everyone!!!
It is Wednesday, May 28. Fair. Let me write about Nakayama Fukuzo, Masa's spouse. He was born in 1887 and went through hardship for his father's early decease and fire on his house when he was 5. He left his birthplace, Kumamoto for Kagoshima, his mother's home town and then at 14, He went to Nagasaki with his uncle, Motoshima Sakutaro hoping to go to the U. S. to study, but boys who hadn't had physical examination for conscription were not alowed to go abroard in those days so he went to Chinzeigakuin, boys' missionary school in Nagasaki, which turned out to be non-authorized, so he went to Osaka at 18 to enter middle school in Tondembayashi, Osaka as a scholarship student. He was such a brilliant student that the headmaster introduced him to the Koshii family, one of the financial combine (zaibatsu). He became a tutor for his son. Fukuzo seems to be short-temper and was involved in a struggle between baseball clubs and had to leave school. He went to Koriyama junior hish in Nara and entered Tokyo University majoring law. In his school days, he stayed with that uncle, Sakutaro who ran gum plantation in Borneo. Sakutaro was a veterinarian in Singapore with fame, but his endless ambition made him choose another vocation. He has a man of foresight. He forsaw the coming age of automobiles and gum for tires.
Oops, I have written too much acout his uncle! I'd like to continue writing about Fikuzo next time.
Thank you.
He made a living as a lawyer in Osaka Ryuichiro, the with to
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