Dimmesdale is forced to hide his identity as the father of Pearl, the daughter of Dimmesdale and Hester, to not compromise Hester’s bold attempt to keep his paternal connection secret. He is affected psychologically and his anguish deepens as the story progresses; no help to Chillingworth, the real father (what a love triangle, eh? ), who is stoking Dimmesdale’s psychological suffering as if it were a camp fire that keeps him happy and warm. Dimmesdale’s psychological affliction also makes him live in physiological agony as seen by the “paleness of his cheeks” (99) and his “troublesome chest cavity” (187). Because Dimmesdale hides his shame by trying to appear collected towards the community, he “burns in secret” (159) which leads to the climax of his trouble a top the scaffolding where he finally lets out the guilt he has been hiding and falls
Unrequited love is a kind of love that can't be reciprocated or returned, even though it's usually desired. In the novel, one of the major characters, Jay Gatsby, has this sort of romance towards his old flame, Daisy Buchanan. When he went off to war, even though Daisy promised to wait for him, she couldn't and married Tom. Gatsby was poor and Daisy wanted more, desperate for affection. When Gatsby returned home, he did whatever he could to win Daisy's heart back and earned money and riches.
In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”. The repetition of the word “baby” tells the reader that Singh is happy being married to his wife and that he gives her a high status in his life. The repetition of “my bride” is triple refrained which perhaps suggests that Singh has a surprising nature about his wife. This creates an interesting character as it tells us that he is willing to stop working and go against his father’s orders just to spend time with his wife. Despite the criticism he receives from his customers, Singh seems to hold his wife as a major and main priority in his life and could suggest that his emotional and mental wellbeing depends on his wife.
Marriage Fantasy is an escape which almost everyone can exploit in times of desperation and hopelessness. However, it is not equal to the contentment that execution brings. Passage 1 is about a man that is “too young” and “too full of the sap of living” who is forced to live by the side of his wife, whom he detested, and who chooses the practical decision of staying with her than pursuing his happiness with the woman that he wishes to be with, Mattie. The author captures Ethan’s begrudging attitude towards his hopeless and detached marriage by the dejected tone, third person narrative, symbolism and the restrictive setting of the piece. The author commences with a description of Ethan’s “cold” and “dark” study.
Phil had a heart attack because he was so stressed out from work, and he didn’t have a life outside of work so he was always stressed out. Everyone should have a hobby to enjoy, something that is not stressful and that gives them a break from everything else in life. Phil worked so much that his son didn’t know what he was like and his wife had been missing him for years. Family life is very important for a married man and Phil didn’t have that in his life. Now he is dead and his wife left widowed and his children
The universal truth behind this story is that the innate differences between men and women coupled with lack of communication will cause a marriage to stagnate and become an uneasy compromise. Insensitive and inconsiderate of his wife's feelings, Michael openly admits his attraction to other women. Frances wants to know his true feelings and he gives them to her cold, "I got all this stuff accumulated in me because I've been thinking about it for ten years and now you've asked for it and here it is." (7) He does not acknowledge his wife's despair; he knows he is wrong and yet he feels righteous because so far it has only been a physical attraction. Michael blithely dismisses his wife's pleas for reassurance.
Company focuses on marriage and its many varying points of view; from those that find themselves happily married, those who divorce and enter a happier relationship with each other, to those who are not ready for marriage in any way, shape or form. The concept of paradox focuses mainly on marriage as well, making it the center of everybody’s lives, even for those who do not consciously wish to marry. Robert questions Harry if he’s ever sorry he got married only to receive a more puzzling answer than he would have expected. Harry and the other husbands melodically explain that “you’re always sorry, you’re always grateful” (Sondheim 32), referring to the way marriage is not always what the couple might have expected or specifically desired in the beginning, but has now contributed to some of the best, and definitely some of the worst, days of their lives. “You’re regretful-happy/Why look for answers where none occur?/You always are what you always were/Which has nothing to do with,/All to do with her.” (Sondheim 33) At this point, Robert is not able to grasp the idea behind the husbands’ joy in this situation, despite all of the imperfections
He was willing to do whatever he can to marry her putting all of his political reasons aside from him. Even when Jane had left him he became miserable and his life went in a terrible direction. As for Jane, she also became depressed and continued thinking about him. When she returned to see him he was joyous and they both lived together happily. In my opinion, Mr. Rochester has become the big hero once again showing that he’s the only man who can make Jane Eyre happy.
However the wife leaves, confining the husband to his home alone. In this poem the husband takes on a stereotypical role in the marriage by being the stronger person of the relationship. He strives for control of the situation and pretends to not care much that he just buried his son. He hides his emotions and changes the subject to the rot he found on the fence. At first he wonders why his wife is crying and becomes angry with him, but once she explodes at him, confessing all her feelings, and threatens to leave him, he states that, “There, you have said it all and you feel better.
‘She seemed to hear my silent voice And loves appeal to know’ (L19, 20) This depicts love as obsessive and selfish. A love that exists only in the mind of the lover. John Clare is writing as an adult looking back to his youthful past, to his 'First Love'. It is an innocent love toward a girl he has only just seen, yet feels instantly transfixed and ensnared by. The very first line of Clare's poem declares 'I ne'er was struck before that hour' The use of the word struck gives us an image of someone unexpectedly being hit by a spell or by one of cupids arrows, leaving him unable to resist falling in love.