1. extension of quiz and orientation
a. fair → beautiful(1) Snow White
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?
The mirror always replies: "My Queen, you are the fairest in the land."
(2) Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in 1847–48, satirising
society in early 19th-century Britain. It follows the lives of two
women, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, amid their friends and family. The
novel is now considered a classic, and has inspired several film adaptations.
b. Pygmalion
Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved(Galatea).
c. Dido
Dido was, according to ancient Greek and Roman sources, the founder and first queen of Carthage (in modern-day Tunisia). She is primarily known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic, Aeneid. In some sources she is also known as Elissa .
......Dido was trapped by her words. But Dido preferred to stay faithful to her first husband and after creating a ceremonial funeral pyre
and sacrificing many victims to his spirit in pretense that this was a
final honoring of her first husband in preparation for marriage to
Iarbas, Dido ascended the pyre, announced that she would go to her
husband as they desired, and then slew herself with her sword. After
this self-sacrifice Dido was deified and was worshipped as long as
Carthage endured. In this account, the foundation of Carthage occurred
72 years before the foundation of Rome.
2. Other stories
a. Pygmalion effect
For example, My Fair Lady, which is a 1964 American musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
Another example, Bicentennial Man, which is a 1999 American science fiction comedy-drama film. Based on the novel The Positronic Man, which is itself based on Asimov's original novella titled The Bicentennial Man, the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity, intellectual freedom, conformity, sex, love, and mortality.
b. 富貴如浮雲
Ecclesiastes 12:8-14 New King James Version
Part of the text :
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Vanity of vanities,
said the Preacher,
vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?
One generation passes away,
and another generation comes:
but the earth stays for ever.
The sun also rises,
and the sun goes down,
and hastens to his place where he arose.
3. prefix, root and suffix
-cide : kill eg. homicide, pesticide, suicide
homicide (n.) the crime of killing someone
voc, vok : to call eg. invoke
invoke (v.) to ask for help from someone who is stronger or more powerful, especially a god
pro : in favor of eg. propaganda, protagonist
propaganda (n.) information, especially false information, that a government or organization spreads in order to influence people’s opinions and beliefs
protagonist (n.) the main character in a play, film, book, or story
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