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رد: المستوى الثالث سنه ثانيه للمتعثرات والمحولات
P .29 : "By what means….. supreme being"
The prince asks a very reasonable question which is why can't the African and Asian go to European countries and occupied it?. Imlac says that because the European is more powerful and have knowledge and reason. Here, Johnson is propagating for the European.
P .31 : " They are surely….. to be enjoyed"
Johnson concentrates on Europe and European, and gives us wisdom in the last quotation.
All the human being are facing problems, diseases, miseries and death, but each person must endure and be able to face it if he wants to be happy.
Chapter 12 :
P: 32 "When this though………"
Imlac talks to Rasselas about his history. He praises the ancient civilization because it reflects the source of knowledge for him.
" A man used…………"
Imlac got tired from his own country, and decided to go to the Happy Valley. (OR YOU CAN SAY: when Imlac returns to his country, he feels disappointed. That is because his father is dead, his inheritance divides between his brothers and some of his friends don't know him).
Chapter 13 :
While they are walking, they see some rabbets trying to find a new shelter. Imlac tells Rasselas that we sometimes learn from the manner of animals. So they know how to escape by observing the manners of the rabbets.
"the eyes of the prince………certain"
Rasselas is enthusing to escape from the valley.
Chapter 14 :
Johnson wants to tell the readers that not only men can travel and learn, but also women can.
Rasselas, Imlac and Nekayah want to escape from the valley because all of them feel boring.
Although they are afraid if someone catches them, they escape, get on the ship and travel from Suez to Cairo.
Johnson introduces one of the two female characters in Rasselas, Nekayah.
Nekayah gains the trust of Rasselas through her observation of his scheme to escape the “happy valley.” The happy valley, however, is not forgotten entirely, as will be seen in the concluding chapter of the narrative.
Chapter 15 :
Imlac, Rasselas, Nekayah and Pekuah leave the valley. Imlac advices the prince and the princess to hide their jewels in their clothes, in order to keep them out of danger.
Chapter 16 :
The “choice of life” becomes an identifiable theme in the text. Imlac points out some people will often delight in the trouble of their companions simply because another individual’s woe makes one’s own state bearable.
Chapter 17 :
Rasselas looks to men of his own age for insight about the “choice of life.” His moral rectitude and warning to his counterparts make him the object of laughter.
He doesn't find the happiness in the societies of the young men.
Chapter 18 :
Rasselas listens to a “wise and happy man” who preaches about the temperance of the passions. However, when he loses his daughter, the sage fails to take his own advice and he enters into a state of despair.
As the voice of wisdom, Imlac warns “Be not too hasty. . . to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men (80).
Chapter :19
Rasselas is eager to discover the world outside. He is also eager to visit the hermit and learn from his life and experiences.
Chapter : 20
Here, the hermit describes to Rasselas his misery although he is rich.
Johnson pays attention to the power struggles in Egypt through the example of the wealthy man living in the woods. Though prosperous, he lives in fear because he is at odds with the Bassa. A Bassa is a Turk of high rank.
Chapter 21 :
The hermit is determined to leave his isolation.
Rasselas meets the hermit who seeks to return to the world he left behind. Solitude is no comfort. The only advice the hermit can offer is to avoid evil.
Chapter 22 :
In his pursuit of the “choice of life,” Rasselas listens to “a wise and happy man,” a rhetor. However, the rhetor he speaks in generalities about following the nature of things. The more Rasselas listens to him, the less clear he is about the rhetor’s point.
Chapter 25 :
Nekayah sees no complete happiness in the homes she has visited.
Chapter 27 :
Rasselas recognizes that civic hierarchies create rivalries between one public servant and another.
Moreover, those people who are virtuous are not necessarily happier than those who are less virtuous. In other words, ills can befall both the good and bad.
Chapter 29 :
Here is a conversation between Rasselas, Nekayah and Pekuah. There is a good advice here which is "choose your life and be satisfied with it".
Chapter 30 :
Imlac interrupts Rasselas and Nekayah, and says to them they are in danger of letting life itself slip through their fingers.
Chapter 32 :
In their pursuit of the happiness, the young travellers enter the pyramids. They want to know how to be happy by observing and studying the ancient ages.
CHARACTERS:
RASSELAS:
He is the prince of Abissinia. He is the fourth son of the king. Because of that, he doesn't have a hope of being a king. He tries to enjoy life. His every need is met. He has a tutor who tells him every thing about life.
When he is 26, he realized that he is bored. He explains the reason of his boredom that he can not live like an animal. To him, living in the palace is living like animals. He is curious and wants to have some knowledge. As a result of that he is unhappy.
Rasselas' goal is to make a "choice of life". He wants to search for happiness outside the happy valley, so he successes to escape from it. He clearly knows the type of happiness that he wants to discover. "Happiness" said he "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty". He demonstrates great determination in his search and doses not want to give up.
IMLAC
Imlac is the wise teacher and guide who accompanies Rasselas on his travel in search of happiness and the meaning of existence. He travels to a lot and different countries to learn. That's why Rasselas makes him his guide because he knows about the outside world.
His own sense that happiness was inevitably elusive and perhaps illusory, his own tendency relies on hope for the future, and his own paradoxical reluctance to live –emotionally- in the future.
Imlac rehearsed upon the various conditions of humanity.
NEKAYAH
She is the prince's sister. She is courageous to take the decision to go and search for happiness with her brother.
She is restless like her brother. She is searching for ease of life. She is always motivated by hope, that's why she joined her brother in his journey to search for happiness. She came to the same result at the end of the story when she realized that real happiness cannot be earthy it only can be granted by God in the other life.
She gets more mature because of the experience. She had been too long accustomed to the conversation of Imlac and her brother to be much pleased with childish levity.
Do not forget to pray for me
Good Luck
Fatimah Ahmad
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بالتوفيق لكم كلكم 
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