faraway village

Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his GREat surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and firendly. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often."
In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."
　 All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?

young Prince of Denmark

He told his plan to Horatio, his best friend in the castle, and also asked him to watch the king' s face with the GREatest care.Hamlet went to the king and queen to tell them that he would like to invite them to a play the next evening. They aGREed to see the play. They hoped that Hamlet was at last getting better and would come to accept them as his father and mother. He said good night to Claudius and Gertrude, pretending that he was happy that night.On his way back to his own room, he met Ophelia, who looked so sad and unhappy in the hall. The king and Polonius were hiding behind the curtains of the hall, trying to listen to their conversation.Hamlet said to Ophelia, "I don' t love you anymore. We are all dirty animals on this earth. Ophelia, you are one of these dirty ones, too. Go to a nunnery. Go away right now, you dirty woman!"Ophelia was too surprised at his words to say anything to him. It was such a strange and mad thing to say. Polonius thought his guess was right. But the king still doubted Hamlet' s madness.The king, the queen and Polonius entered a large room where the play was to be shown to the whole court. The king sat with the queen. Hamlet sat by the side of Ophelia. Horatio sat facing the king in order to watch him carefully.


The play began. In the play the king and queen were talking on the bench in the beautiful garden. The queen said to the king, "I will love you forever. I will never marry another man if you should die before me. Only women that kill their husbands marry again. " The king in the play was very glad to hear this. As the king fell asleep, the queen left him alone. Just after she left, the king's brother came near the sleeping king and poured a deadly poison into his ear. He was soon killed by this cunning brother who had long wanted to become king and marry the queen.Seeing this scene, Claudius turned pale and became very angry. He shouted, "Stop the play at once. " He stood up and went out of the room with the queen.Horatio and Hamlet saw the king show every sign of fear and anger. Hamlet was now quite sure that the ghost had told him the truth. He himself became excited and firmly decided to revenge his father as soon as he could. When the queen came back into her room, she was very worried about her son, who had made the king furious. She wanted to know why Hamlet asked the group of players to show such a disgraceful play before the king. She sent for Hamlet.


Hamlet hurriedly walked to her room where she was uneasily waiting for him. On the way to his mother' s room, Hamlet saw Claudius kneeling down to pray in his room. He thought he could kill him right then. But he did not do it. He said to himself, "If I kill him when he is praying to God, he will not go to hell. I had better kill him when he is angry or doing something bad. Then he is sure to go to hell. " So he stopped thinking of killing Claudius for the moment.Hamlet did not know that the doubting king had commanded Polonius to hide behind the curtains in the queen' s room so that he could see what might happen there. As soon as Hamlet came into her room, his mother began to scold him for what he had done to the king. She said angrily, "You have made your father very angry. You must beg his pardon."Hamlet would not listen to her, but answered back. He said, "It is you who are to blame. You married that unkind and unkingly uncle of mine so soon after my father' s death.You should be ashamed of your deed. I will never accept him as my father. He does not deserve to be King of Denmark. I will tell you again. It is not I but you and that dirty Claudius that should repent."

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Hamlet' s friends were anxious about him and came to look for him. They found Hamlet kneeling down and looking up at the dark sky praying to God. Hamlet noticed them coming to him. He stood up and sincerely asked them not to tell anyone what had happened that night. They all aGREed and made a firm promise not to tell anyone about it, swearing on Hamlet' s sword.That very night Hamlet decided to pretend that he had gone mad in order to have a better chance to kill Claudius. He decided not to tell his plan to any of his friends except Horatio .Since Hamlet saw the ghost, he had often thought of his dead father and of his promise to the ghost. He became sadder each day. He was not a young, merry prince as he used to be. Before his father' s death, he was interested in many things, such as books, art, music and plays. But now he gave them all up. To everyone, he seemed to act very strangely. He became rude to everyone in the castle and behaved like a mad man.He hardly ever spoke to Ophelia , a beautiful lady whom he had deeply loved. Before, they would talk happily and take walks in the woods near the castle. He would talk to her so sweetly and gently that Ophelia was deeply in love with him. But now he was quite different. Therefore, Polonius, Ophelia' s father, did not want his daughter to love Hamlet anymore because of his strange behavior.


One day Hamlet came to Ophelia, who was knitting in her room, and spoke wildly to her. He appeared half-naked, wearing a dirty shirt with no hat on his head. She gave back all the letters and valuable rings that she had received from Hamlet."I will not meet you anymore," she said to him. Hamlet left her, feeling even more miserable.She told her father everything that had occurred in her room. When Polonius heard this from his daughter, he believed he knew what had made Hamlet go mad. He thought that Hamlet had gone mad because of his love for Ophelia . Polonius went to Claudius and Gertrude to let them know what caused Hamlet's madness. He told them that the love affair between Hamlet and Ophelia was the true cause of his madness.Claudius always doubted what he heard from his men. He commanded two men who used to be Hamlet' s friends when they were children to find out the true reason why he had been acting so strangely recently. He also asked Polonius to arrange an unexpected meeting of the two lovers so that they could carefully observe Hamlet' s behavior.


Hamlet' s two old friends met him when he was saying some strange things to himself alone in the hall of the castle. They begged him to tell them the true cause of his madness. But he would not tell them anything, and instead made fools of them.One day when Hamlet was unhappy and worried by the memory of the ghost and the promise he had made, a group of actors came to visit him. They were the same players that Hamlet used to enjoy seeing. He welcomed them. Then they acted a short play for him.It was a sad story about a good king who was poisoned to death by his brother. And this man became king and married the queen. They played it so well, with tears in their eyes, that the scene seemed real. While Hamlet was watching them, he felt very angry with himself. He said to himself, "Those players can cry for the sad king whom they have never met. But in my case I have done nothing at all for my poor father who was killed by my uncle Claudius. What a coward I am!"When the play was over, he thought of a good plan. He decided to have them play it once again in front of the king and queen the next day. He also asked them to add a few lines of his own to the play so that he could make the play more like what had happened to his father. Hamlet said to himself, "If Claudius is really guilty, his face will turn pale while he is watching the play. Then I will know that what the ghost told me is true. I will watch his face very carefully."

young Prince of Denmark

This is the sad story of Hamlet, young Prince of Denmark, whose father died two months before the story begins. Hamlet' s father was King of Denmark and Hamlet was his only son. The king died a strange death while he was sleeping in the garden of his castle. It was believed that he had been bitten to death by a poisonous snake. He was such a wise and kind king that he was loved by all the people in the nation. His son, Hamlet, of course, loved him far more than anyone else in the world.Hamlet was so sad and sorrowful that he never stopped wearing black clothes. There was something else which made Hamlet even sadder. His mother, Gertrude, married Hamlet' s uncle, Claudius, who was a brother of the late king. After Hamlet' s father died, Claudius became King of Denmark and married Gertrude. Young Hamlet did not like him because he was not as wise and kind as his father. He was a man of unkindly character. Hamlet did not in the least want his mother to marry such a man. He became angry with both of them and came to despise his mother as well as his uncle.


The bell of the castle was ringing. It was exactly midnight. Suddenly a ghost in the form of the late king appeared in the darkness. It looked pale and sad. Looking at the ghost, the two guards of the castle and Horatio, Hamlet' s best friend, were surprised and terrified. They wondered if something bad was going to happen in Denmark. They decided to tell their prince what they had seen .The next day they went to Hamlet and told him that they had seen the ghost of King Hamlet. Hamlet doubted it at first, but wanted to make sure himself. He asked them to take him to see the ghost that night. They aGREed.Late at night Hamlet, Horatio and one of the guards went to the top of the walls. It was very cold and dark there. Some time after they got there, the ghost in armor suddenly appeared out of the darkness. As his friends had told him, Hamlet saw that the ghost was exactly like his dead father.He called out, "King, Father! Why did you come here out of the grave?"The ghost did not answer him, but looked at him sadly and made a sign for him to follow. His friends did not want to let Hamlet follow the ghost because they thought it might be an evil spirit and do something badto him. But he did follow the ghost. While Hamlet and the ghost walked away into the darkness, his friends had to wait anxiously there worrying about his safe return .At the end of the walls of the castle the ghost stopped and began to talk to Hamlet, "I am the ghost of your father. I wanted to rule Denmark peacefully until you GREw up and became king after me. But two months ago, while I was sleeping in the beautiful garden of the castle, my brother Claudius came and put poison into my ear. I was instantly killed. Hamlet! Be brave and kill him for me. But never kill or hurt my wife, for she is your mother. Let her repent for what she has done. That is enough for her. What I have told you is true. I tell you again. I was not killed by a poisonous snake, but by my brother Claudius. Never forget what I have told you, my dear son. Good-bye, Hamlet!"Then the ghost disappeared into the mist of the dark sky. Upon hearing this, Hamlet became excited and was even more furious with Claudius and his mother. He made up his mind to kill his uncle and let his mother repent for her sins.

The penguins

For instance, there are several scenes in the film when a parent seems to grieve over a
broken egg doomed never to hatch, or appears to mourn over the body of its frozen chick.

Instinct, hormones, and the drive to reproduce influence a lot of the penguin behavior,
Kooyman said.

"What gives the impression sometimes of sorrow is that they fool around with the [broken or
frozen] egg, or other birds try to take an egg away," Kooyman said. "There's just a drive to
incubate, to participate in breeding behavior at that time of year for these birds."

The film also shows multiple shots of two adult penguins cuddling side by side, their beaks
touching and forming almost a heart shape. It looks like love, but is it?

Despite the beautiful imagery, it's not certain that each posturing pair is actually a mated
pair.
"If it's in August or September, the two are probably mates," Kooyman said. "In April it
could easily be two birds that get together and then decide that they wouldn't make good
partners.

"You also see such posturing at the ice's edge. There's a lot of social behavior between
adults," he added.
Unlike nesting birds, penguin parents actually spend very little time together.

The penguins make the grueling journey across some 70 miles (110 kilometers) of Antarctic
ice each April to return to the breeding grounds where they were born. After the courtship
period, the couple forms a strong bond until the egg is laid in May or early June.

However, as soon as the egg is transferred to the father, the mother takes off to return to
her feeding grounds. She returns some two months later. The starving male, who hasn't had a
meal in months, immediately leaves.
The two trade off rearing their fish and returning to the sea to feed for about five months,
until the chick is old enough to be left on its own. After that point the parents will
probably never see each other—or their offspring— again.

"In a way, the film anthropomorphized the lives of the penguins, but I think it's OK,"
Kooyman said. "Simplifying some aspects of the penguins' life story makes it more accessible
to the general public."

Disney immortalized

Ever since Walt Disney immortalized interspecies friendships and talking teapots,
anthropomorphim (attributing human traits and emotions to animals or objects) has been a
movie staple.

Now some scientists are criticizing the movie March of the Penguins for portraying the
Antarctic seabirds almost as tiny, two-tone humans.

The poster for the surprise hit film reads, "In the harshest place on Earth love finds a
way." And the movie describes the annual journey of emperor penguins to their breeding
grounds as a "quest to find the perfect mate and start a family" against impossible odds.

The penguins are the only animals that make a home above the ice in the subzero temperatures
and blistering winds of the Antarctic winter. They overcome incredible odds just to survive,
never mind breed and nurture new life.But is it love?

Talking Animals
The filmmakers behind the English-language version of March of the Penguins—which is
distributed by Warner Independent Pictures and National Geographic Feature Films—toned down
the anthropomorphism of the original, French release.
In the original documentary the penguins "spoke" their own dialogue, like Bambi or Babe the
pig. The version released in the United States uses a narrator, actor Morgan Freeman, to
tell the story.
Still, the film describes the emperor penguins as "not that different from us" in their
pouting, bellowing, and strutting.
The bond between the star penguin parents is called a "love story." And the penguins seem to
have emotions— grieving over the loss of an egg or a chick, rejoicing at the return of a
mate, loving their families.

"In a few places it's a little over the top," said Alison Power, director of communications
for New York City's Bronx Zoo and the affiliated Wildlife Conservation Society. "But I
thought the filmmakers did an excellent job in not anthropomorphizing the animals."
Marine biologist Gerald Kooyman studies penguins at Antarctica's "Penguin Ranch," and he
begs to differ. He said the portrayal of the penguins' mating rituals as a love story is a
"major" case of anthropomorphism.

So do the birds experience emotions at all? "Zoologists would say, Probably not," saidKooyman, who works for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "A lot of what looks to us
like love or grief is probably hormonally driven more than some kind of attachment" to the
egg, chick, or partner, he said.

Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp

Aladdin and his mother lived in China.They were very poor:They lived in a hut and often had not enough food to eat.
One day Aladdin's mother said,"Go out into the field and get some flowers;we will sell the flowers and get money to buy food,"So Aladdin went into a field to get flowers.
Now the place where the lamp was hidden was in a hole in that field.
There was a heavy door on the top of the hole.The door was almost covered with grass so that no one would know that it was there.But the magician know where to look,and he found the door.He opened the door and looked down into the hole:it was very small.It was so small that he could not go down it.
Then he saw Aladdin.He called him.
"Boy!"he said."Come here...What is your name?"
"Aladdin,sir."
"I want you to do something for me,Aladdin."
"Yes,sir."
"There is a lamp at the bottom of that hole;but the hole is too small that I cannot go down it.Go down into the hole and bring me the lamp."
Then he gave Aladdin a ring.He said,"There is danger in that hole.There may be a genie who will try to kill you.Take this ring:it will keep you safe."
Aladdin went down the hole.At the bottom he saw a small room.He saw the lamp on a table in the room;he took it and went back.He climbed up to the top.
　
The door was shut.He called and the magician opened it a little.He said,"Give me the lamp,Aladdin."
Aladdin thought,"I do not like this man.When he has got the lamp he will shut the door and leave me here to die."So he said,"Open the door and I will come out.Then I will give you the lamp."
"No!"said the magician."Give me the lamp now.Then I will open the door and help you to come out."
Aladdin said,"No!open the door,then I will give it to you."
The magician thought,"I will leave him there for a night,and tomorrow he will do as I say."So he shut the door.Aladdin was shun in,in the hole.
He went back to the little room.He was afraid:"The magician has left me here to die.How can I get out?My mother will not know where I am:she will think that I am dead.If I can get out I will give her the beautiful ring.We can sell it and get food.and we can get some money for this old lamp."
He rubbed the ring.
There was a GREat noise,and a Genie stood in front of him,"I am the Genie of the ring,"he said."You rubber the ring and I have come.What do you want?"
"I want to get out of this place,"said Aladdin."Take me out of here.Take me home to my mother."
The Genie took Aladdin and put him down at the door of his mother's house.
"Where have you been?"said his mother,"Why have you brought no flowers?...What shall we eat?I have no food in the house and we have no money to buy any food."
Aladdin shoed the lamp."We can sell this,"he said,"and buy food with money."
She looked at the lamp."We shall not get much money for that dirty old lamp.But I will clean it,and the we may get more."So she rubber the lamp.
A Genie stood in front of her.
"Oh!"cried Aladdin's mother."Who are you?"
"I am the Genie of the lamp."he said."You rubbed this lamp and I have come.What do you want?"
"We want food."said Aladdin.
The Genie set a wonderful meal down on the table-enough food for two or three day.They ate;then Aladdin's mother said,"We will put this food away and eat the rest of it tomorrow."
One day when Aladdin was walking in the street,Princess Badrul passed by.She was very beautiful.Aladdin had never seen anyone so beautiful.
Each day at the same time he went out to see the Princess go by.Then he went home;he took the lamp and rubbed it.The Genie stood in front of him:"You rubbed the lamp and I have come.What do you want?"
"I want to marry the Princess Badrul.I want a fine house,fine clothes,jewels and money.Make me the richest man in this country."
The Genie did this.
The Aladdin went to the King and said,"I am the richest man in this country.I want to marry your daughter,Princess Badrul."
When the Princess Badrul saw Aladdin and talked with him,she liked him.And,as she saw more of him,she liked him more.Then she went to her father,the King,and said,"I will marry Aladdin.I think we shall be very happy."
So Aladdin and the Princess were married,and they lived in the GREat house-the biggest and most beautiful house in the city.
　
The magician had gone back to Africa.A man came to him from China.
"Well,"said the magician,"tell me what has been happening in China."
"A young man called Aladdin has married the Princess Badrul.They live in the finest house in the city.He is very rich."
"Aladdin?"said the magician."Aladdin!On the next day when I went back to that hole in the field,I called,but he did not answer.So I thought that he was dead.But he did not die!He got out of the hole and he has the lamp!The Genie of the lamp has done all this for him.I must go back to China and get the lamp from him."
　
So the magician went to China.He got some new lamps which looked like the lamp which Aladdin had got.He waited till Aladdin went out of the home.Then he came to the house.He saw the Princess and said,"I will give new lamps for old ones.Give me your old lamps and I will give you new lamps."
The Princess said,"We have no old lamps:the house is new and all the lamps are new."
"Is there any old lamp in the house?"
"Aladdin has a old lamp,"said the Princess."I will go and get it."
The magician took the lamp.He rubbed it and the Genie stood in front of him."You rubbed the lamp,and I have come.What do you want?"
"Take the house and everything and everyone in it to Africa."
　
Aladdin came back to his house.But there was no house.There was only a field where the house had been.The house and the Princess Badrul had gone.
"What can I do?"said Aladdin.Then he thought of the ring."Perhaps the Genie of the ring can help me."
So he rubbed the ring,and the Genie stood in front of him.
"You rubbed the ring,and I have come.What do you want?"
"Someone has taken the lamp and has told the Genie of the lamp to take away my house--and the Princess Badrul.Where he put it?Where is Princess Badrul?"
"The house is somewhere in Africa,"said the Genie,"and the Princess is in it."
"Bring it back again!"said Aladdin."Bring her back"
"I cannot do that,"said the Genie."The Genie of the lamp is a very GREat Genie.He is stronger than I am."
"Then take me to the house."said Aladdin.
The Genie took Aladdin to Africa.There he saw the house.He waited until the magician went out of the house.Then he went in.
"Oh,"cried the Princess,"I know that you would find me and save me.What shall we do?"
"Where is the lamp?"aid Aladdin."We must get it."
"The magician always carries it with him.It is with him day and night."
"Take this powder,"said Aladdin."Put it in the magician's food.When he eat it he will fall into a deep sleep."
　
Aladdin hid.The magician came back and the Princess brought him the food.He ate it and fall into a deep sleep.
The Aladdin came back and took the lamp.He rubbed it,and the Genie stood in front of him.
"You rubbed the lamp,"said the Genie,"and I have come.What do you want?"
"Take the magician and put him in the hole where I found the lamp and shut the door so that he cannot get out."
"What more do you want?"said the Genie.
"Take the house back to China."
So the Genie brought the house back to China.The King was glad when he saw Aladdin and the Princess.
When the King died,Aladdin became the King.