2010- 1- 24
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أكـاديـمـي فـضـي
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رد: Second Year English Students
[QUOTE=Miss.LoLo;732212]Do you think that Robinson Crouse is a Tabula Rasa or not ? Why?
Do you think that Rasselas is a Tabula Rasa or not? Why? Give reasons for your answer.
Despite having everything in the Happy Valley, people there are not happy. They are described as prisoners. Despite all the elements that are there in the Happy Valley, there is unhappiness. Rasselas feels unhappy this is why he decided to leave the valley to the outside world. He is not satisfied with his life in the valley. This unhappiness is the motif that caused him to go and see the outside world. It is because of human curiosity, the desire for knowledge. He wants to have first hand knowledge. He does not want to get it from lessons. He wants to have his own experience in life.
The author hints to some things in chapter 1. these hints come true in chapter 2. He just hints that these people are living in luxuries, happily, having all sources for entertainment, but they are like prisoners. This is what happens actually in chapter 2. Rasselas starts having the feeling of boredom. He starts having dis****************************. He begins to question his teachers. He starts having this idea of escape. Most of the themes are in the first chapter. In the following chapters they are realized as we read along in the novel.
One of the major themes in the novel is the desire for first hand knowledge. The nature of happiness is another major theme. The novelist is a pessimistic. He thought that people can never be happy- there is no happiness on earth. Happiness is something allusive. Happiness has an illusive nature.
Samuel Johnson was mainly a philosopher- a man of ideas. He always thinks about the nature of things. Defoe was mainly a journalist. When he wrote his first novel Robinson Crusoe, he pretended that it was a real story.
In Rasselas the theme can be about the nature of happiness, the human desire to get first hand experience. This is something philosophical or serious. Johnson wrote many books about philosophy. This is the only book that can be considered as a novel. Some critics say that it is not a true novel; it is a book of moral allegory, philosophy.
One of the important themes in Rasselas is the theme of
freedom.
[in crusoe Tabula Rasa if a person is like am empty sheet of paper- any body can write on it- like a n infant- a newly born baby- he is a Tabula Rasa- he does not know anything- he does not have any memories- and then his parents start teaching him- he starts to know people- he grows up- gets information and form his character
It can be part of the character of Robinson Crusoe- some critics mention that the character of Robinson Crusoe is like Tabula Rasa when he first went to the island. He did not have anything at all. He stared being formed as a newly born baby. But other critics refused this saying that when he was sent to the island; he was not like a newly born baby. He has memories. He remembers[/QU
سوري الي بالازرق ماله داعي بس مستعجله ونسخت كل شي
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