Imagine how your life will change if a monkey comes in your life and write the account in an interesting manner.(90 words)
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Explanation:Monkey is one of the masterpieces in the genre of the classic Chinese novel. It
has been immensely popular with the general reading public of China since the sixteenth
century. Abridged and translated into English in 1943 by Arthur Waley, it has made its
way onto the college campuses in the United States, and has been well appreciated. There
is a recent complete and unabridged translation by Anthony Yu, with the title Journey to the
West.
In this thesis, I offer a series of critical essays on Monkey. The first essay locates
the work in the genre. It traces its heritage in style and content to the story-telling tradition
of China and contrasts Monkey to the most distinguished pieces in the genre. The next
four essays focus on the four individual characters of importance in the work. The sixth
essay offers my interpretation of the view of Wu Ch' eng-en, its author, on what truth is
and how a person may achieve his own truth. The final essay offers a reflection
speculating on Wu's processes and their connection to concepts in the literature on creative
and critical thinking. It ends with a metacognitive description of my own processes in
writing these essays.
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The personification of the human seeker, the character Monkey goes on a spiritual
journey in search of immortality. He is in the company of three other characters: his master
the Tang monk Tripitaka, Pigsy and Sandy, Tripitaka's other two disciples. The group is
on its way to see the Buddha to obtain Buddhist scriptures for the Tang emperor. After
going through many ordeals, they succeed in their mission.
The novel contains an allegory and a metaphor. The allegory assigns the four
pilgrims personalities representing different aspects of the human temperament, and in so
doing, it describes the human condition. The metaphor presents Wu's views on the
meaning of an individual human being's journey on earth: namely that talents and
intelligence must be channelled in order to achieve worthy goals. With his book Monkey,
Wu Ch'eng-en offers his readers a great piece of entertainment and at the same time his
philosophy that truth must be perceived and interpreted by each individual for himself; it
cannot be captured in a group of sentences to be transmitted from one person to the next.
Additionally, Monkey also offers itself as a good case study of how creativity is nurtured
and transformed into an artistic presentation, and the role critical thinking plays in this
artistic process.