Ritual & Social Structure · Unable to achieve pregnancy woman consults a diviner · Seance ensues, attended by woman's kin and reveals the cause · The diagnosis is invariably one where the afflicted woman is "caught" by an offended maternal ancestor who has emerged from her grave to sit in the woman'sbody · The explanation lies not so much in magic or medicine but social structure: Ndembu are matrilineal and virilocal · The tensions are built into the social fabric: Conflicting loyalties, allegiances mark the fault lines · Failure to conceive draws attention to the major sourceof tension within society and an opportunity to work through the social structural tensions Changing Face of Relationships? · Childlessness or "infertility" a `norm violation'? · Normative Motherhood, Prescriptive Fatherhood? · Is heteronormative marriage on the decline? · Conjugal bond weakening and Cohabitation of the rise?
violence should be read as an inevitable outcome of a destructive war rather than as a conscious decision to enforce a code of moral conduct. Indeed, Henry eventually follows in the engineering sergeants' footsteps by abandoning the army and his responsibilities. While he does, at times, feel guilt over this course of action, he takes comfort in the knowledge that he is most loyal where loyalty counts most: in his relationship with Catherine. That these conflicting allegiances cannot be reconciled does not suggest, however, that loyalty and abandonment lie at opposite ends of a moral spectrum. Rather, they reflect the priorities of a specific individual's life. Illusions and Fantasies - Upon meeting, Catherine and Henry rely upon a grand illusion of love and seduction for comfort. Catherine seeks solace for the death of her fiancé, while Henry will do anything to distance himself from the war
Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 319 suspicion. Hoffman gives the example of an `interventionist' interpreter, who tries to manipulate her according to her own political allegiances. The locals' deferential attitude is related to their metonymic translation of the foreign visitors as standing for `the West', a thing that unquestionably places them in a position of cultural superiority. The `Westerners' are also the people to whom locals
HERO or unpredictability. Like any effective work of art they need both universality and originality. Nobody wants to see a movie or read a story about abstract qualities in human form. W e want stories about real people. A real character, like a real person, is not just a single trait but a unique combination of many qualities and drives, some of them conflicting. And the more conflicting, the better. A character torn by warring allegiances to love and duty is inherently interesting to an audience. A character who has a unique combination of contradictory impulses, such as trust and suspicion or hope and despair, seems more realistic and human than one who displays only one character trait. A well-rounded Hero can be determined, uncertain, charming, forgetful, impatient, and strong in body but weak at heart, all at the same time. It's the
resplendent one of Louis XIV, Rossignol served with an extraordinary facility. The stronghold of Hesdin surrendered a week sooner than it otherwise would have because he solved an enciphered plea for help, and then composed a reply in the same cipher telling the townspeople how futile their hopes were. How many other towns he compelled to surrender, how many diplomatic coups he made possible, how many betrayals he uncovered among the great nobles in those days of shifting allegiances, he never discussed. This reticence caused some at the court to charge that he never actually solved a single cipher, and that the cardinal spread inflated rumors about his abilities to discourage would- be conspirators. But in fact Richelieu was frequently telling his subordinates such things as, "It is necessary to make use, in my opinion, of the letters of the man who has been arrested by the civil authorities at Mezieres, that is to say, have them put into Rossignol's hands to see if
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