Reflection#1

A Doll’s House = A Doll on a Music Box

When I first saw the clip “Doll on a Music Box”, I was thinking about a play named A Doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen.  Nora can be seen in every scenes of the play.  Nora’s husband controls Nora as a child, and her main duty is housewife and taking care of her children.  Both a Doll on a music box and Nora have many things similar.  They are a feminist that men’s power is over women’s role.  They cannot start to talk about their own feeling.  I saw almost every woman in the crib afraid of showing her mood, especially a queen.  She quietly sits next to a king and keeps herself silence.  However, it seems like a man has more freedom to do anything in the society than a woman does.  All men in the scene are able to reveal their emotion.  Women are limited a territory in a social.  For example, a Doll on a music box is limited on the quadrilateral box.  She cannot walk, talk, and think.  Similarly, Nora is limited in a house.  She is not also allowed to go, and think out of her house.  Both of them must be lost themselves because of people around them.  When a doll looks in a mirror, she does not know herself.  At the same time, besides housework, Nora knows nothing in the world because of man’s dominance.  In the present, I think men and women are still unequal in some countries in the world, especially Asia region.

Welcome to I AM

The same book, the same article, the same story, and the same page are read by different people from different country and culture may feel a story in different way.  Experiences that people met have impact on their thought.  I have experience directly while I am studying in the United States.  I admit that I sometimes read foreign of another nationality novel I barely understand all the characters, symbol, and character's performance in the story.  Culture differences and English language are my main obstacle.  Someone may wonder now who I am.  I am the one who always sit at the middle of the classroom; black hair, and yellow skin.  My name is jannipa Kangwall.  Everybody can call me Ying or Jan.  I came from Thailand, not Taiwan.  My face may look like Chinese because my mother is Chinese and my father is Thai.  Nobody sees me talk.  I am not arrogant, and am also not mute, but I am not a talkative person, and I like to sit and listen.  If someone wants to talk or express your feelings, you can come to see me.  I may not give you a good advice, but I am a good listener.  I want to be friend with everybody.  I love comedy, reading comic book, and playing a game.  I think our life is so short.  We never know what is going to happen tomorrow, so what make us happy we should do it.  I sometime spent my life absurdly because I want to be happy, but sometime I think I had fun too much.

T^T

I am undergraduate student in English-literature major.  I am taking this class because I want to be English professor in Thailand, but English is so difficult for me.  I will try to do as my best.  I totally do not understand about this subject; Major Critical Theories because I have no background about theories in writing; however, I heard some theories in the class from the past.  Many people told me that "I am not good in speaking. I must not be good in writing".  I tried to prove this accusation, but it might be true because I could not write a long paragraph. I am stuck right now. 

I have never taken 4 o'clock class before.  I was so excited when I was in the class at the first day.  Everybody looked active and good at this subject matter.  I thought this class might be bored, but I was wrong.  Professor and everybody in the class made the class go fast.