2022_심화영어

Main Reading What does the author mean by “dulcet shepherds, noble savages, bland utopians”? Q3 Joyous! How can one explain joy? They were not simple folk, you see, though they were happy. Given a description such as this, one tends to look next for the king, mounted on a stallion and surrounded by knights, or perhaps in a golden litter borne by great-muscled slaves. But there was no king. They did not use swords or keep slaves. As they did without monarchy and slavery, they also got on without a stock exchange, advertisements, secret police, or bombs. Yet, I repeat that these were not simple folk, not dulcet shepherds, noble savages, bland utopians. They were not less complex than us. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight; to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. 05 10 ’em In the sentence “‘em” is a contraction of the word “them.” Tip Reading stallion litter monarchy dulcet bland sophisticate lick condemn New Word s Exploring Dilemmas Through Literature 139