Kim Soo Young

Rating: 8/10  What is the real meaning of Happiness? Which perspectives we should choose to approach to the meaning of happiness, for society or for individual? Former one is about utilitarianism. they say, “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”. But there is a kind of trap which this short story also talked about. In a community, if someone gets happiness or interest, the other may be unhappy or make loss. For example, if I get into a good job like a lawyer, a doctor, someone must fail. Because opportunities are limited in the human society. Then, is there a real happiness? So, I think we should happiness is more personal one. I don’t mean egoism or individualism. The friends and acquaintances’ happiness is also necessary for one’s happiness. Self-realization can make happiness.

 Rating- 7/10 This story is talking about a priest’s die through the boy’s perspective who was close to priest. James joyce used a lot of metaphor and hidden message. In fact, the priest had an undesirable sexual inclination. And this terrible inclination is caused by the high-pressure sexual culture in priest society. The story’s view, a small boy, made the writing more special, dreamy and mysteriously. The boy didn’t face the priest’s die directly. He experienced dead mediately. He heard the old priest’s last through the priest’s acquaintances. Additionally, Paralysis is one of the important keywords. The boy imagined ‘the paralysis’ to see the priest’s dead. It means the paralysis of the Ireland society. I think James joyce want to represent the love and attention about Ireland and its Irish.

 Ratings: 7/10   The rady with the dog is the story about ‘love’ that is prohibited, bur true. Marry is the result of love between couples. When two people love each other, they promised that they live together during their other life. Marry is evidence of love and a kind of social pledge. But, there are the married couples who don’t love each other. This tragic pledge can be caused by a pressure of family, an ignorance about one’s partner or a fraud of one side etc. Dmitri and Anna, the two main characters of the story are also those who had wife or husband that they are not loving. Due to their foolish marry, they fall in love each other. At that time, what kind of love can we say true love? Fair, but not loved marry? Or Trust love that is prohibited in society? This story makes me think about what is the true emotion in the human relationship.

 The student by Anton Chekhov (1894) Rating 7.5/10 The 8 th  journey:  the ordeal-> the talking with   Vasilisa, the actually it is not seen as a kind of general ordeal, due to this conversation, Ivan  Velikopolsky  can have enlightening   This story is a kind of special  bildungsroman. There are no fighting between superhero with villain or Huge disaster that can destroy the earth. There are just the conversation between t he student  and  the two widows, mother and daughter, the changing of the skeptical student, and the great literature technique of the writer, Anton Chekhov. In the story, Ivan had skeptical view about Russian’s lives and human beings ultimately. After telling Saint Peter’s story and seeing Vasilisa’s tear, however, he realized a mysterious, but clear connection of present and past. He is sure about the way that human beings should go, that might be suggested approximately 2000 years ago. I think that this connecti...