The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

Murasaki Shikibus The Tale of Genji  is an larger-than-life bol iy of the emperors prospered son. Although he is successful and although this tale high lights the umteen successes and failures of Genji, Shikibu touches on one reoccurring tough luck of Genjis throughout the entire epic: his trouble with women. The tale is fill with the m whatever adventures Genji embarks on m lay off his quest for women remains throughout the entire novel. His womanizing ways calculate to be stemmed from one ultimate goal: determination a girl whom resembles Fujitsubo, the courtesan who resembles Genjis m another(prenominal) Kiritsubo. She was charming with rich, unplucked eyebrows and hair pushed childishly back from the forehead. How he would like to see her in a few old age! And a sudden fruition brought him close to tears: the affinity to Fujitsubo, for whom he so yeared, was amazing  (70-71). While chasing women may not necessarily be a bad outlet for accomplishing his end goal, it seems inappropriate that Genji would obsess all over childlike girls. However, the quest for a replacement of lost love, the infantile fixation over one favored maiden and the fondness of young girls are character traits in which Genji does not acquire on his own but provided follows in his fathers footsteps.\nMuraski Shikibu starts of the tale introducing the coarse Emperor who loves one concubine, Kiritsubo, to a greater extent than the rest of the concubines. Shikibu does not go to great lengths to give any character traits of the Emperor other than his favoritism towards Kiritsubo. The emperors pity and substance quite passed bounds. No interminable caring what his ladies and courtiers might say, he behaved as if intent upon stirring gossip  (3). However, this favoritism  turns uncomfortably into obsession, He insisted on having her evermore beside him, however, on nights when there was euphony or other entertainment he would require that she be present  (4). In the pass the boys mother, feeling vaguely unwell, asked that she be allo...