A Tale Of False Fortunes And The Doctor's Wife

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Women’s Jealousy and Family Achievement People feel numerous emotions that is always complex and complicated. Emotion is not simple and mixed several feeling once time, and it is often different on moment to moment basis even though it is the emotion to a same person. Thus, emotions has many side, changes often, and influences person’s being. For example, Jealousy is the strong feeling to change a person’s state. A person changes their attitude at the moment to recognize own jealous to particular person, and it is difficult to contain the her jealousy if the person know own feeling. Also, jealous tend to lead extreme action, too. Enchi Fumiko and Ariyoshi Sawako show in theirs book that is A Tale of False Fortunes and The Doctor’s Wife shows …show more content…

In the Heian period, the powerful people tried to marry their daughter to emperor because a maternal grand father of emperor could take actual control of the politics as a regent and chancellor. Thus, if a empress give the birth next emperor, the family of the empress take political power. Saying in different words, the most important role of daughter or empress is to give the birth next emperor for success to family. However, Teishi of A Tale of False Fortunes attract the emperor to avoid jealousy, but she throws away her role of family at the same time because she doesn't join the competition to attract the emperor. To take example, Her family face the hardship of the downfall after Teishi’s father dies. In this time, Teishi already attracts the emperor, but she does not make any action for family and only considers the emperor’s peace of mind. Indeed, she answer to her brother, who is taken the position by his uncle, that “[she] really consider the matter, it’s the emperor who is to be pitied for having to agonize over this (Enchi 50)” when they talks about their political opposition. Moreover, characters and a narrator emphasize that the only person who can win the Fujiwara no Michinaga is the Teishi again and again, but she never stands to him and only receipt of her situation. If Teishi jealous other princesses, she attends …show more content…

The most extreme competition is to be the subject of an experiment that drinks the anesthesia made by Seishu for operation. The experiments are hold four times and Seishu uses it only for Kae, who lost view by the experiments consequently that gives win an overwhelming victory over Otsugi. However, Otsugi’s statement that she want to take the experiment influenced Kae and stirs up competitive spirits. In short, Otsugi conduct that Kae attends to the Seisu’s experiment. Thus, their completion leads to Seisyu’s social success. However, Kokuri points out that Seishu also knows the competition between Kae and Otsugi, “but throughout he shrewdly [pretends] he [doesn’t] see anything which [results] in both [Kae] and mother drinking the medicine (Ariyoshi 163).” Seishu watches the fights from the sidelines because he knows that they scramble for him to stand at advantage over opponents. If the Kae or Otsugi has congfidence to be her advantage, they do not to compete each other. In a word, Kae and Otsugi are not the absolute being in the family even though they are mother or wife of Sheisyu. Seishu is only one the absolute being in the family because he is the head of a family, and Seishu makes use of their jealousy for his achievement. Kae and Otsug have the Jealousy competitions for long time because it is competition to take advantage in the family, and