Literature of East Asia
Please answer any one of the following questions in approximately 4 pages (double-spaced, 12-pt font):

1. In both Kim Van Kieu and The Love Suicides at Amijima, female characters express kindred feelings toward other women (living or dead), with whom they share a fatalistic acceptance that they must suffer at the hands of their lovers or others. Compare the respective treatments of this idea in these two works, and in particular, how the two characters accept and cope with life in the world of prostitution.