italian history
Agu 1
Vanessa Agu
Professor Zampirini
Italian History 41W
2/17/14
Weekly Response #1 Leopard “Death of the old Kingdom” symbolizes the Prince’s position in aristocracy. His social status is declining. Even though the prince is prestigious, his rule/power is coming to an end. A prince cannot have power forever. When it’s time for prince to “retire” another heir will take over. As the prince gets older, his power will diminish. The Italians fighting for unification was a representation of the prince’s social status in the hierarchical system. The “smell of the garden” represents death because of the soldiers who are killed during the rebellions for the unification of Italy. Any solider who enters the garden will be killed violently. The garden is like a death trap.
The narration states “the continuing of innocent peasants marrying, generation after the next will become weak upper class people.” The narrator believes that peasants who marry into a family of nobility are prone to being vulnerable because of their background. The Prince is always imagining his own death because he knows he is not getting any younger. His children are getting married and time is flying by fast. When he has flashbacks of his youth, he begins to reminisce the good times he had when he was young. “Death was always present in his life.”
Death is unavoidable. The whole concept of “family” relates to life, death and the cycle of life.
When a child is born, the parents are still young but they do keep in mind that as the child grows they will also age. When the child gets married and has children, the parents will approach old age. The next generation will follow the same lead and the cycle of life will continue forever because it is a never ending process.
Vanessa Agu
Professor Zampirini
Italian History 41W
2/17/14
Weekly Response #1 Leopard “Death of the old Kingdom” symbolizes the Prince’s position in aristocracy. His social status is declining. Even though the prince is prestigious, his rule/power is coming to an end. A prince cannot have power forever. When it’s time for prince to “retire” another heir will take over. As the prince gets older, his power will diminish. The Italians fighting for unification was a representation of the prince’s social status in the hierarchical system. The “smell of the garden” represents death because of the soldiers who are killed during the rebellions for the unification of Italy. Any solider who enters the garden will be killed violently. The garden is like a death trap.
The narration states “the continuing of innocent peasants marrying, generation after the next will become weak upper class people.” The narrator believes that peasants who marry into a family of nobility are prone to being vulnerable because of their background. The Prince is always imagining his own death because he knows he is not getting any younger. His children are getting married and time is flying by fast. When he has flashbacks of his youth, he begins to reminisce the good times he had when he was young. “Death was always present in his life.”
Death is unavoidable. The whole concept of “family” relates to life, death and the cycle of life.
When a child is born, the parents are still young but they do keep in mind that as the child grows they will also age. When the child gets married and has children, the parents will approach old age. The next generation will follow the same lead and the cycle of life will continue forever because it is a never ending process.