“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”Gale. “From the Tale of Kieu” is a story that survives centuries in the minds and hearts of a culture must therefore touch people in important ways. Kieu is every person who has to endure what fate has to offer. Kieu, a beautiful and gifted girl, met in the course of a spring outing a handsome young scholar named Kim. They fell in love with each other. Moreover, Kieu and Kim vowed to each other eternal love. Similarly, as Candide and Cunegonde promise to always love each other. However, a calamity befell.
In addition, one central theme of the “From the Tale of Kieu” seems to be human strength and weakness. Everyone has special qualities
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Human kinds release from its self-incurred “immaturity” – immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. This is related to Kieu that enlightenment is the process of undertaking to think for oneself, to rely on one’s own intellectual capacities in determining what to believe and how to act. Therefore, Kieu's father is arrested on a false charge and Kieu follows the Confucian teaching that duty to one's parents overrides all other duties, and gives herself to be sold as a bride to a stranger even that her heart belonged to a different person. As a result, Kieu has …show more content…
He had married Vân, Kiều's younger sister. Until one day, chance took him to Giac Duyên's place, and there he met Kiều for whom his love had remained unchanged. Kiều's feelings had also remained unaltered. In contrast, Candide finds the love of his life in a shorter period of time compared to Kim and Kieu. But the strength to never giving up and always remembering the true love between them made them forget the days and years that passed because they were always in a run to find each other. And what mostly matter to both of the couples was the fact of knowing that their partner is