3 Lecture Read Confucian Analects Tale of Kieu Moon represent a sense of impermanence. o Something that is continuously being grown and cut down o Closer, poignancy of impermanence. Get home in time to serve her parents, If too long, there may be death, organ point of her psychology. Identity as a daughter is still a prevailing part of her psyche. o When she comes home. The original husband wishes to marry her. o Same logic as Odyssey, must not be too long. o The intervening trauma. Like military engagement, has trauma from her bout in prostitution. o Siren song of Odysseus was reference to the war. Veterans watch war movies. Returning to the trauma. To try and master it... etc. o Revisitation. Sacked cities in Odyssey Feels impure when she came home. Decision to platonic marriage. Three roles. o Wife, o Nun o Daughter, dominate role. Tale prevalence over all others. Return primarily for her daughter role. Confucian ideology takes prevalence over the Buddhist Role of the state in the end as benign. o We had both corrupt and good in the book o Last role we seen is the role of the benign. o Family arrest, Miss Haon, Breakage of marriage, o Reunion of the family is achieved through the state, as Kim, a part of the state, was ablw to initiate a search o Final impression was as benign agency that restore the daughter to her parents. Idea of childlessness. o Symbolic ending of Karmic chain of suffering etc Religious implication, samsara, shengshi. World of change, impermanent of suffering. Of attachment o It is through life and death that each generation comes into being. o Each generation follows that of before, o Disappearance of TAM TIEN. Final reture see the restoration of all three roles. Dream of the Red Chamber, mid 1700s, different balance of Buddhist and Confucian. What is Kieu's theory of her fate. Plaything of powers that are overly strong. o reed in the wind. o HER OWN THEORY A contrast to her resourcefulness Pre-incarnation that she conjures herself. Again a return to her own theory. Reunion perhaps another read as the prevalence of Confucianism over Buddhism, service to family more important than religious ideals. Euphemism as flower and moon In Confucian ideals, family more important that that for state. Lines 2684 - 2685, "not all is lost...love for love." Confucius thought that relationship for the family is a model for the state. Book 13, sheep analogy.