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Prompt: What significance lies in Kieu reminiscing about the memories of love?
Sample Answer:
'A ring with a piece of cloud,
This fate, hold onto, belonging to all.
Even if I become a wife or a husband,
Pity those whose fate lies in silver, surely not forgetting.
Losing you, I still hold onto a shred of belief,
Strings of a guitar with a scent of past enchantment.'
Not only recalling memories, Kiều also entrusted tokens of love to her younger sister, they are the ring, the piece of cloud, guitar strings, and the scent of enchantment. These love relics have once again brought Kiều's love back to life, in her circumstances back then, only these relics were Kiều's sole anchor. Thúy Kiều and Kim Trọng have shared beautiful memories, days filled with happiness, yet now Kiều must choose filial duty over love, she only hopes that when Kim returns, he and her sister will remember her. She hopes these tokens of love can preserve the belongingness of all three, although giving the tokens to Vân, she cannot give Kim's love, the deeper and more intense the love, the more it absorbs the bitter tragedy.
Through the details Kiều mentions the memories of love in the excerpt 'Trao duyên', author Nguyễn Du has highlighted the tragic anguish of Kiều, the tragedy of a broken love and a life full of twists and turns, injustices. At the same time, praising the beauty in Kiều's soul, a girl with a loyal, intense, loving, and loyal heart. This is also the humanitarian spirit as well as the deep sympathy of Nguyễn Du towards the fate of the talented but doomed girl.
