Analysis Of Shonagon's Embarrassing Stories

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Throughout Shonagon’s stories she has a certain attitude toward people of very high ranking that is different than her opinion about the servants. We can infer that she has a very deep anticipated respect for the higher class when she states that, “What a delight is is when Her majesty summons me to her side so that all the others have to make way!” (Shonagon 461). Another example of her respect toward authority is the inside the passage “Embarrassing Things”. During this passage she describes the servants as “imagarous who in the presence of some learned person puts on a knowing air” (Shonagon 458) she then continues by declaring them an embarrassment to the visitor. Therefore that passage proves she is respectful to the higher class. Both