The Cid Paper
Each of the stories, “The Poem of the Cid”, “Ali Cogia”, and “Ying-Ying’s Story”, all have a similar foundation that helps define the story. This idea of sacrifice for prestige is prevalent in each of the stories.
First of all, “The Story of Ali Cogia, Merchant of Baghdad” it illustrates the greed for money in people in order to reach a higher standing. Ali Cogia is troubled by a dream of his, this dream is scolding him and telling him to go on this pilgrimage, and he takes it as a warning. Burdened by the fact that he must sell everything in order to go on this pilgrimage, he does so anyways losing all of his valuables. Although, his intention on leaving the village were to travel to the pilgrimage site, he is instead seduced by the talk of making money and ends up following the path of money and improving his standings. Upon returning Ali Cogia and his friend, whom he had asked to watch his gold, get in to an argument, each wanting to keep the money for oneself. In the end, it is shown that these characters sacrifice something that may have been important to them at one point in order to get a little bit of wealth believing it was the better choice. Ali Cogia sacrificed his importance of the pilgrimage and damaged his friendship, while his friend got caught lying reducing his reputation as a trustworthy person and also damaged his relationship with Ali Cogia.
“Ying-Ying’s Story” examples this idea of sacrifice for prestige by using the career over romance scenario. Zhang ends his relationship with his lover, in order to save himself. It is because Ying-Ying’s influence on Zhang disfigures is moralities, changing him into a lustful creature, it ultimately hinders his future. Realizing that Ying-Ying has a power ...
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...ey take his their wives, the Cid’s daughter, and bring them to a secluded place in the woods and beat them nearly to death and leave them there, but are eventually found and rescued. The Cid infuriated with what had happen required justice from the king, in which he got, infantes being guilty, resulting in the return of his honor.
Ultimately you can see that the Cid made some bad choices leaving his family in danger for the sake of his career and reputation. As well as the other two stories each one of them showed a sacrificed made by characters in turn for prestige in their lives or careers. This is still very common today probably even more than it was in the past because there’s more opportunities for the lot of people, allowing them to invest more time into what they believe is more important, their careers, and sort of prioritizing everything else beneath it.
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