Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and from the beginning we could see that his portrayal of love for Rosaline seemed that he was trying to act out what he had read about. When Juliet first meets him, she says that he ‘kisses by th’ book’, meaning that he kisses by the rules. This shows that Romeo’s kiss is proficient but lacks originality, and this is also reflected upon by his personality. When Romeo meets Juliet, Rosaline instantly vanishes from his mine, and in fact Juliet is far more than just a replacement; Romeo’s love for her is far deeper, more authentic and unique than the clichéd puppy love for Rosaline. Romeo’s love matures in course of the play, from a shallow desire to intense, profound passion.
We get this impression as she says “Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead”. This shows us that she is full of aggression towards this man as he has suddenly walked out of her life and broken her heart. As she starts the poem off saying, “Beloved sweetheart bastard”, this suggests that she once knew a sweet and loving man, who has turned into someone completely different and ruined her life. The words ‘beloved’ and ‘bastard’ are very harsh sounding words due to the effect that phonology gives it. Another point that shows her aggression is when she says, “Bang.
The theme of love in the first three Acts. Love is a crucial key in the play Hamlet. The whole plot of revenge is based upon the love Hamlet had for his father and how the love was so strong it made him prepared to do something that was extremely difficult for him to do. Even most of the sub-plots in the play were about love including the conventional love of Hamlet and Ophelia, the friendship 'love' between Horatio and Hamlet, the incestuous if not lust filled love between Claudius and Gertrude and the love between family members. All of which make up the essential and important parts of the play.
Literary criticism theories such as Marxism, feminism, new historicist and many more, helps the reader to interpret and understand the text. New Historic theory is used to look at the history of the poet and the critic itself to understand the meaning behind the poem. Tragic love is the theme of the poem, and it shows the reader that love was not fulfilled between the two people. One did not accept the love of another. One can consider that “She was too kind” is the greatest poem ever because when one understand the history of the poem between the poet and Eliza, it can be determined that the poet used imagery, repetition and alliteration to convey the tragic love between Miss Savage and the poet himself.
Macbeth does murder sleep,” this is exactly what has happened to Lady Macbeth as she is unable to sleep. Furthermore in The Laboratory Browning, also conveys the madness of the character. This is because of her obsession for poison. The dramatic monologue
126). Sonnet twenty is a key sonnet in understanding Shakespeare’s subversion of Petrarchan conventions, as it highlights the feminine qualities of Shakespeare’s lover and praises him for his appearance. Shakespeare continues his homoerotic discourse throughout the sonnet, and as Vendler discusses, the poet-speaker believes it only natural for both sexes to love this man; drawing on traditional, socially acceptable love of a woman for this particular man, yet also the more contemporary idea of same-sex love, as exampled by the young man’s feminine appearance and the statement that women should, too, love this man (Vendler 1997, p.128). Schoenfeldt (2010, p.90) notes that this particular sonnet, sonnet twenty, shows Nature – a traditionally female character - “doting erotically on her own female creation”, and thus highlighting the almost commonplace nature of same-sex adulation of
Furthermore, both poems betray women as bad people. For instance in Porphyria’s Lover his lover acts quite slutty around him; “and made her smooth white shoulder bare,” – this shows that she may have only been in the relationship for an arteria motive. In The Laboratory the woman wants to kill for her revenge and also kill innocent people for fun. He may portray women in this way as women were seen as a “lower-class” to men at the time that the poem was written. When writing The Laboratory Browning will have looked at what people wanted to read.
There are three kinds of love that William Shakespeare uses in this play: true love, friendship, and self love. Self-love is when somebody thinks they are better then another person and is totally in love with themselves and doesn’t listen to anything anyone says that is against them. A few characters display self love in Twelfth Night, for example, Malvolio, with his love for Olivia, but it is a love that is selfish, and that he thinks that everyone is in love with him, and Olivia, with her thinking she is the best and that no one is good enough for her and her mourning of her brother for so long. In Act 3 Scene 1 line 145, Olivia tries to persuade Cesario/Viola to be with her, thinking that is can get anyone to be with she is astonish that Cesario denies her and then tells him that she will wait for him to enter manhood, but that will not happen cause Cesario is not a man. Malvolio Is the easiest to identify with the problem of self love.
For these reasons Ophelia is sympathetic to Hamlet, even as he lashes out at her, "O, help him, you sweet heavens” (1351)! Hamlet is projecting his anger at his mother, Gertrude, on to Ophelia. Because of his intense love for her, Hamlet believes that she will almost certainly betray him just as his mother betrayed his father. Hamlet's love for his mother makes her deceit that much more painful to him. Ophelia symbolizes what Hamlet once believed his mother to be.
Comparing A Midsummer Night's Dream to Romeo and Juliet "Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit; for if they could, Cupid himself would blush to see me thus transformed to a boy." Do you know who wrote this famous quote? He is William Shakespeare that is regarded by the majority of people to be the best playwright in all of history. He wrote many plays like A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. These two works have a similarity in themes of love and farewell.