Mao's Last Dancer Journey
Journeys have a mental nature, where intellectual processes take place and your mindframe can forever change. This idea is best displayed in Mao’s Last Dancer, where we see a young boy, Li Cunxin, rise from the depths of communism to a shining star in the dance industry. And through his life’s journey we are shown his coming of age and ideologies shift one country to another. The mentality of journey’s is also capitalized in the poem Journey to the Interior where the physical journey can parallel to a more complex internal struggle and confusion. Thus both Mao’s last dancer and Journey to the Interior convey the mental aspect of a journey.
The mental nature of journeys is demonstrated in Mao’s last dancer through the shift in ideologies: from Li Cunxin being a devote believer in communism and Mao’s regime to reaching freedom in capitalist America and Australia. Li Cunxin was brought up in QingDao, a small village under Mao’s regime, and through the his …show more content…
In this poem by Margaret Atwood the persona embarks on an inner journey and compares it to an explorer entering a new ‘uncharted,’ and,‘unmapped territory,’ where the inner mind analysing the purpose and direction of life. Atwood uses an extended metaphor in the poem comparing the a journey into the mind finding youself to a physical journey. She’s uses this technique in “easy going from point to point, a dotted line on a map, location plotted on a square surface” to explain that a journey in the mind is not linear, not a direct route like a normal journey. Margaret Atwood also uses simile and imagery to demonstrate that there is no saviour from the depths of your own mind when she says, “words here are as pointless as calling in a vacant wilderness.’ Evidently we can conclude from the analysis of the inner mind in Journey to the Interior that journeys embarked upon have a mental
The mental nature of journeys is demonstrated in Mao’s last dancer through the shift in ideologies: from Li Cunxin being a devote believer in communism and Mao’s regime to reaching freedom in capitalist America and Australia. Li Cunxin was brought up in QingDao, a small village under Mao’s regime, and through the his …show more content…
In this poem by Margaret Atwood the persona embarks on an inner journey and compares it to an explorer entering a new ‘uncharted,’ and,‘unmapped territory,’ where the inner mind analysing the purpose and direction of life. Atwood uses an extended metaphor in the poem comparing the a journey into the mind finding youself to a physical journey. She’s uses this technique in “easy going from point to point, a dotted line on a map, location plotted on a square surface” to explain that a journey in the mind is not linear, not a direct route like a normal journey. Margaret Atwood also uses simile and imagery to demonstrate that there is no saviour from the depths of your own mind when she says, “words here are as pointless as calling in a vacant wilderness.’ Evidently we can conclude from the analysis of the inner mind in Journey to the Interior that journeys embarked upon have a mental