Discuss the similarities and differences between the male warrior and the woman in childbirth in the Florentine Codex and Cantares Mexicanos.
2. In the Story of the Stone, how does the role of hierarchy and authority impact the family. How does Bao-yu fit in?
3. Explain the role of secrets and secrecy in Tartuffe. How does this affect the characters?
4. Rousseau's Confessions, he directly brings up the problems of autobiographical narrative in the selection quoted from book VI. He suggests the difficulty of communicating the source of feeling, the impossibility of making narrative equivalent to memory. Does he convincingly evoke feeling and memory? If so, how?
5. In the Florentine Codex and Cantares Mexicano, the second of the two midwifery orations the woman is said to have "emulated" the goddess. But in the first, she has only "aided." Explain the difference.