In both stories we have a love triangle with a woman which is unobtainable and two men that fight over her. Absolon uses courtly language to try to get Alisoun to bed, another tie in to the Knight’s Tale. The tale ends at the end of a hot poker instead of a sword. In the Miller’s tale the love triangle is not much more than a lust triangle, and by doing this Chaucer suggests that what is really going on in both genres is the lust for sex. An example where the Knight’s tale is parodied is the part where Absolon tries to seduce Alisoun while John is out of town: “And softe he cogheth with a semi-soun— ‘What do ye, hony-comb, swete Alisoun?
In Hero and Leander there are many contrasting attitudes to the concept of erotic love. The two manners toward erotic love are as such: One is to stress on the physical act of sex. The other is the defiance to erotic love and preference toward virginity. At first glance Leander seems to favour the former and tries to promote physical love, but throughout the text he shows a kind of humorous naïve-ness. Hero, who is a nun and supports chastity, in general, can be seen being quite forward.
‘A Woman to her Lover’ is portraying that women should be treated as equals to men, and loved in an equal fashion. ‘First Love’ is describing love at first sight. A darker and more sinister presentation of love is portrayed in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, as a recluse is in the dark, attempting to heat himself up. Porphyria smoothly enters, bringing warmth to the recluse, only for the recluse to kill Porphyria. John Donne, a seventeenth century metaphysical poet, presents a scenario in ‘The Flea’ where the speaker is trying to get his
Mercutio’s role plays more on the sexual aspects of the play as it relates to love. The famous queen Mab speech (I.iv), which appears rather innocent and clever, is symbiotic to the sexual draw of the play. While the speech seems naïve at moments, the blisters Mercutio references can be none other than a purposeful STD reference. He goes on to talk about the false dreams of sex she
Conversely, speakers in the works of Edna St. Vincent Millay balance the ideas much more fairly. As an illustration of this, the first stanza of "To His Coy Mistress" will be compared to "Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now;" and the second to "Love is Not Blind." The stance on the importance of procreation in Marvell's poem will finally be compared to that of Millay's "I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed." Juxtaposing the works of these two poets, one must regard the treatment of sexuality in Marvell's poem as not only offensive to women, but also offensive to love itself. It is truly ironic that the beginning of "To His Coy Mistress" is actually tantamount with the concepts in "Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now."
However, Shakespeare presents Benedick’s change in a more positive and light-hearted manner, whilst Macbeth’s change revolves around negativity and wrong-doing as the approach to each individual genre is different, where comedies are humorous and happy, whilst tragedies are gloomy and grief-stricken. INTRO: The opening scene of the play, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, is significant as Shakespeare introduces the genre of the play as a romantic comedy through the comic names given to Benedick and Beatrice by each other. Beatrice nicknames Benedick as “Signor Mountanto”, which uses sexual innuendo expressing their love hate relationship, created by the definition of the word ‘montanto’ (technical term for an upward thrust in fencing). This insulting, but hilarious comment would have only been understood by the Shakespearean audience. Opposing this, Benedick personifies disdain in the form of Beatrice, by calling her “Lady Disdain”, suggesting that she is in fact, the epitome of disdain or contempt.
Explore how aspects of Love and Sex are presented in Much Ado about nothing Love and sex in “Much ado about nothing” are the most important themes in this play because they explore Elizabethan views of chastity and cuckoldry. From this play we can see that they regarded marriage and chastity as being important Benedick and Beatrice create humor through their wit and the way they seem to dislike for each other. The result of this is the positive resolution of their relationship: a declaration of true love, and finally a sincere and very open relationship, all ironically caused by deception. Benedick never listens to peoples suggestions and always ends his conversations with a ‘’jade’s trick’’. He thinks marriage reduces the quality of a man’s life.
Romeo doesn’t love Rosaline but instead loves the idea of love, he demonstrates physical desire and lust rather than actual love and a romantic connection, a stark contrast with the love he shares with Juliet. Mercutio is anti-romantic; for him, love is a physical pursuit, which he emphasizes through his lewd dialogue, “If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.” Mercutio's repeated references to the sexual aspect of love, contrasts with Romeo’s romantic connection with Juliet that is portrayed as going beyond simply a physical attraction, illustrating his cynical belief that romantic love does not exist. Moreover he curses specific people, the houses of Montague and Capulet, rather than an external force such as fate or love. The Nurse, similar to Mercutio, makes lewd references to the sexual aspect of love.
Justine Velez “To his Coy Mistress” To his Coy Mistress written by Andrew Marvell, is based on Marvell’s love and desire for his “coy” or shy “mistress” or lady. In this poem Marvell’s sexual tension is announced as he writes a speech explaining to his lady how time is not forever and they should “seize the day.” He does so using romantic and playful tones while also being persuasive. To his Coy Mistress is written in three stanzas using iambic tetrameter. In addition, the rhyme scheme is consistent (a,a,b,b,c,c). Marvell makes certain choices and decisions to explain what would happen if there were more time as well as questioning what will happen in the future.
as you may see in other poems, this is not correct if this was to be a love poem. We see this lust rather than love in the way she is said to have “yellow hair” and how she “makes her shoulder bare.” we can sense how there is a frustration as he quite clearly want more than the to be his lover but to be a together, this is a convention of a love poem but the way she acts makes it more of a story of lust. The ABABB rhyme scheme is pleasant like a love poem and gives a rhythmic up beat approach to the relationship; this is the antithesis of the way that the poem unfolds as rather than having the expected denouement that you might get in a normal love story. The use of the present tense is