Martha C. Nussbaum

    After studying her work, I cannot help to think of an old saying by an ancient Chinese author---- Women are made of water. It may too rough by my translation, but I really want to express my feeling for her " Cultivating Humanity"---- as soft as water spreading into my mind.
About her interpretation on plot of Sophocles, the cultivation acts as nymph to connect the drama and the audience. This way, a work profoundly awakes the sleeping soul.

Here the arts play a vital role, cultivating powers of imagination that are essential to citizenship.

    This theory can be seen in many literary works. In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Height, the figure Heathcliff at the dying bed finding his original humanity hiding in the deepest part of his heart. Though he did his revenge to both families crudely, his unfair life experience draws the sympathy of the audience to his inside feeling. His rage and revenge are seen as the reimburse from an unjustified life. However, a wild life was eventually cultivated on his deathbed to back to his original soul so that the novel at the end brings a light of hope to people. The work practice the cultivating power to the audience which agrees with Nussbaum's theory of Cultivating Humanity.