1) I think the allusions are somewhat good and some bad on the reader. A good bit of the analogies she uses are confusing, but others actually helped me understand he point better. With the harder to understand analogies it does seem a bit alienating, but the easier to understand ones made me feel more enlightened by what she wrote.
2) Her thoughts on self respect are mainly agreeable. Most of the things she said i believe most people would agree with. She states "one runs away to find oneself, but find no one at home" i believe that she is saying if you have no self respect you truly do not know who you are and you are at a lost. To be honest the commitment of adultery and the statements she said about "courage of their mistakes" and "character" confused me because if you were to commit adultery in the first place you have no respect for yourself and other.
3) The thought of self respect being a "discipline" is correct. You need to be able to maintain your self respect thought discipline. Self respect cannot be faked as she said, if you have no self respect it will show completely in your character and how you act. If you try and fake self respect it will be completely noticeable. The way these relate to writing is that face that you need to discipline youself to keep good writing skills as is needed to keep self respect. Having good writing skills is a state of mind and can not be faked just like self respect.
@#3, yes self respect is a discipline in the sense you where born with it and must maintain and shape it throughout life. Self respect is something that cannot be faked just like good writing skills. Writing is something you have the ability to learn at day one its up to you to shape and progress it,.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely when you said that the thought of self-respect being a discipline. And I also agreed with you with what she said that self-respect cannot be faked. I also thought it was a very good point when you said that if you don't have any self-respect, you are lost and don't know yourself.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that some of the allusions could have been confusing to the reader but for people who did understand they would have been really helpful.I really liked the way you interpreted the qquote in question two. And I strongly agree if a person doesn't have self-respect that they are at lost.
ReplyDeleteYes, when I did understand some of her analogies, I felt better that I learn something interesting and knew what she was talking about. Also, I agree when you point out that fake self-respect will be noticable, and that with good writing skills cannot be faked.
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