哲学家的胡萝卜(结构分析).docVIP

Structural Analysis of the Text Synopsis of the Text Years after she graduated from university, the narrator became a dutiful housewife not without much satisfaction. However, she began to examine her life as a housewife to find out whether she was making use of her college education while fully engaged in housework and whether she was a traitor to the Womens Lib. Thus the narrator started trying to guide her daily routine housework in the light of philosophical knowledge she learned at university. As she stood eating apples, oranges and brown bananas and gazing into the depths of her refrigerator while considering college educations and housewives, she saw the manifestation of a great, metaphysical truth. “Like energy, matter simply descends in scale—from roast to stew to soup to cat food.” When she faced the endless river of dirty tee shirts, sweat socks, pajamas and underwear, she remembered Heraclituss idea “You cant step twice in the same river.” As she picked up a pair of jeans and emptied the pockets of bubble gum wrappers, pencils and pennies, and she saw about her the variety in unity and unity in variety spoken of by her aesthetics professor. When her husband complained that the room was a mess, she retorted with the words of Alexander Pope, “All chaos is but order misunderstood.” When her husband blamed her for buying a new dress, she replied in the words of Pascal, “Ah, but the heart has its reasons the mind knows not of.” And finally, smiling content amid her four men who were happily and heartily eating, she drew a conclusion with the philosophy of Boethius: “Whatever is, is good.” The text may well be turned visually into a table with two columns. In the left-side column we may enter all the philosophical quotations or sayings from the text, and in the right side column are a housewifes domestic activities in one-to-one correspondence to the philosophical ideas on the left. Thus, the authors meditation on the tricky relation between an educated house