it seems that the significance of the mirror brought a new perspective to life - "it had created for the invalid a new life." He had seen beauty like no other through the refection of a mirror, and hence that is what I believe is the importance of the hand mirror.
Well the first husband was very ill so he had to stay in bed and everyday he is trapped in his house staring at the wall and ceiling all day but with the mirror he escape the imprisonment and has a view to the outside world that was a freedom to look at something else for a change that brought forth hope in his situation because he is dying and it was his last chance of in his dream of hope.
I agree with Allen, due to his illness he was put into a position where he could do nothing. He was stuck in his bed and closed outside of the world. However, with the gift of the hand mirror he could enter his own world and escape his cruel reality.
Before answering to the importance of the hand mirror, I think we should know first why the mirror in th first place was brought to existence in the hand of Kyoko's husband. As it clearly puts in the last paragraph of p.667, one afternoon Kyoko went into the Garden and found the green vegetable shining and was enraptured by the rosy clouds on the mountain tops and wanted to share this wonderful view with her husband who was in bed upstairs. So she decided to buy him a hand mirror and through a reflection of the hand mirror and the standing mirror would see the garden and as it says in p.668, (almost in the middle) says that the mirror gave him inexhaustible joy, as if a lost world of fresh green has come back. So the importance of the mirror is that it gave Kyoko's husband a new life from his bed.
I agree with Tee Kaey's opinion. Kyoko wanted her husband to enjoy the reflection of the fresh green garden through the mirrior. The garden and the beautiful natural image seems like a signal full of hope and new felicity in their life. It seems like the situation that people see shinning lights when they are in the dark, and then they don't feel hopeless any more and never give up. In a similar way, Kyoko wanted her husband not to give up, even though bad things happened surrounding them, they could go through any suffering and obtain another new life.
it seems that the significance of the mirror brought a new perspective to life - "it had created for the invalid a new life." He had seen beauty like no other through the refection of a mirror, and hence that is what I believe is the importance of the hand mirror.
ReplyDeleteYes, good comment, John; but why is this mirror so important to him? What sort of "new life" is provided by this mirror?
ReplyDeleteWell the first husband was very ill so he had to stay in bed and everyday he is trapped in his house staring at the wall and ceiling all day but with the mirror he escape the imprisonment and has a view to the outside world that was a freedom to look at something else for a change that brought forth hope in his situation because he is dying and it was his last chance of in his dream of hope.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Allen, due to his illness he was put into a position where he could do nothing. He was stuck in his bed and closed outside of the world. However, with the gift of the hand mirror he could enter his own world and escape his cruel reality.
ReplyDeleteBefore answering to the importance of the hand mirror, I think we should know first why the mirror in th first place was brought to existence in the hand of Kyoko's husband. As it clearly puts in the last paragraph of p.667, one afternoon Kyoko went into the Garden and found the green vegetable shining and was enraptured by the rosy clouds on the mountain tops and wanted to share this wonderful view with her husband who was in bed upstairs. So she decided to buy him a hand mirror and through a reflection of the hand mirror and the standing mirror would see the garden and as it says in p.668, (almost in the middle) says that the mirror gave him inexhaustible joy, as if a lost world of fresh green has come back. So the importance of the mirror is that it gave Kyoko's husband a new life from his bed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tee Kaey's opinion. Kyoko wanted her husband to enjoy the reflection of the fresh green garden through the mirrior. The garden and the beautiful natural image seems like a signal full of hope and new felicity in their life. It seems like the situation that people see shinning lights when they are in the dark, and then they don't feel hopeless any more and never give up. In a similar way, Kyoko wanted her husband not to give up, even though bad things happened surrounding them, they could go through any suffering and obtain another new life.
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