★ patriarchy : a society in which the oldest male is the leader of the family, or a society controlled by men in which they use their power to their own advantage
⇆ matriarchy
Big Love
Plot Summary
Emily is 16 years old when she meets Maciek - a handsome alpha male seven years her senior. Maciek is an unfulfilled musician and an employee of a pharmaceutical company. There is an outbreak of violent passion between them. Maciek introduces her not only to the world of erotic initiation, but also true emotions and feelings. An older man continuously impresses Emilia who was brought up without a father. However, idyllic love slowly turns into a toxic relationship destroying both sides. Emilia's acceptance to college is a turning point in the relationship. It is then when she starts becoming independent, notices other fascinating worlds and other men. Maciek and Emily begin to act destructively to each other. They cannot be together nor live without each other. They decide to commit love suicide.
★ -gamy : 男生女生配
bigamy: the crime of marrying a person while already legally married to someone else
( bi- : two )
autogamy : self-fertilization, especially the self pollination of a flower.
polygamy : the custom of having more than one husband or wife at the same time in societies where
this is legal
polygamous
★ be beneficial to something
beneficial ( good )
⇆ mal- ( bad )
e.g. malevolent : showing that you want to do something bad to someone
malign : to say unpleasant things about someone or something, usually unfairly
malignant : a malignant tumour consists of cancer cells that can spread
in the body
malicious : unkind and showing a strong feeling of wanting to hurt someone
★ candid : honest and direct, even when the truth is not pleasant
candidate
★ trans- : across
transcript
transport
transit : the movement of goods or people from one place to another
⇒ MRT : Mass Rapid Transit
★ Epilogue
An epilogue or epilog is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work. It is presented from the perspective of within the story. When the author steps in and speaks indirectly to the reader, that is more properly considered an afterword. The opposite is a prologue—a piece of writing at the beginning of a work of literature or drama, usually used to open the story and capture interest.
"Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer"from Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and Eastern philosophy.
"Keep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer"in The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film
★ counselor ( counseler ) : a person whose job is to provide advice, help, or encouragement
Counselor is used to address a lawyer
★ medicine : a substance that you take to treat an illness, especially a liquid that you drink
drug : an illegal substance that affects someone physically or mentally when they take it
(=put it into their body)
do drugs ( 吸毒 )
pill : a small piece of solid medicine that you swallow with water
★ magni, magna, magn : great, big, large
magnify : to increase the size, strength, or power of something
magnifying glass : a small circle of glass, usually with a handle, that makes things appear bigger when you look at them through it
magnum opus
✦ Magnum opus or opus magnum (plural magna opera or opera magna), from the Latin meaning "great work", refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an artist. Sometimes the term magnum opus is used to refer to simply "a great work" rather than "the great work" of a specific person. In popular usage, the English-style plural magnum opuses may also be seen. Some reputable dict ionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary record the usage magnum opuses as common enough for inclusion.The term magnum opus is distinguished in usage from "masterpiece" by a requirement that it be a work on a large scale.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 Fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers.
✦ La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy) is a collection of about 100 linked stories and novels by the French realist writer Honore de Balzac. The stories are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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