Ueda Akinari: Bewitched

Introduction

Charming nature, love nature and in analysis in a witch seen, it comes a time in our lives if we cannot hold what in our own. Something else to come magically appear or mysterious, seem to confuse us and our ability to think to be too weak, that we do not hold to the reality we are. His is a story Teenage unusual, most people and yet it happens to some people in the real world, into action. In Ueda Akinari story called "Bewitched," the nature, of the author as an element that the entire plot and hides the true intent of the characters was used encompasses so was nature as a wall that the real motive the characters to each other impeded.

Plot of the story

The whole story was in the province of Kii Miwagasaki in which a man named Oya's no Takasuke life. He has three children, two boys and a girl who would soon enough be his successor. Although he is a wealthy man, very wealthy as the nature rooted in his fish business. Taro is his eldest son, who is soon to manage the business, because he is older than the other two. He is an honest man, while the only girl in the family is already married and lives with her husband. The whole story will be focused on the youngest son, whose name of Toyo-o. Unlike his older brother, Toyo-o is a youth who is not the intention, the family.

Status of Women in Japanese society

Gender has an important principle of stratification in the Japanese history, but the cultural differences between the sexes development has varied over time and between different social classes. In the twelfth century (Heian period), for example, women could inherit in their own names and manage them on its own. Later, under feudal governments (the shogunate) decreased the status of women. Farmers continue to have de facto freedom of movement and decision making, but the upper class women's lives were supported on the patrilineal and patriarchal ideology of the government as part of their efforts to social control. With the onset of industrialization young women participated in factory work under exploitive and unhealthy working conditions without gaining personal autonomy. In the Meiji period, industrialization and urbanization reduces the authority of fathers and husbands, but at the same time the Meiji Civil Code denied women rights and subjected them to the will of household heads. Farmers were less affected by the institutionalization of this trend, but it gradually spread in even remote areas. In the 1930s and 1940s the government promoted the formation of women's associations, applauded high fertility, motherhood and considered a patriotic duty, the Japanese Empire.

Discussion

mean Strangely, in the book all or evil spirits / ghosts were women (there's even a sentence in another story - "Demon", saying "It may be that women by their natural tendency to fanatical devotion to whims, are appropriate in transform such terrible monsters) "Bewitched" is a good taste of the horror stories ...