Browning contrasts the Duke’s representation of the duchess with the factual representation emphasising the Duke’s manic state and causing the audience to strongly oppose the duke as a person. Men feel the need to retain their pride in relationships which reflects the social attitudes and patriarchal values of the Victorian Era. The Victorian Era was a time of a changing social attitudes and people felt insecure and questioned their dominance with an increased male ego. This is evident in Browning’s portrayal of the Duke in “My Last Duchess”. Browning contrasts the happiness of the duchess with by providing imagery of nature, “Bough of cherries” and “orchard” with the dark, manic mind of the duke.
Lear viewed love as a one way street, in which he believed that a family was there only to serve his needs. His excessive pride and sense of ego blinded him from recognizing true love. Putting his daughters into a love test proved Lear’s view on love. He turned the daughters against each other and made them compete for love. “Tell me, my daughters/ (Since now we will divest us both of rule, / Interest of territory, cares of state), / Which of you shall we say doth love us most, / That we our largest bounty may extend/ Where nature doth with merit challenge.” (I i 50-55) At this point Lear’s love towards his daughters was uncertain, he took advantage over the love he had and used it for his own pride.
These three charters have love as a symbolic meaning which influences the story of the great Gatsby. As the book continues, these three charters go beyond where death would take one’s life or give a chance of happiness. Gatsby is one of example who symbolizes love for Daisy. But somehow life play with you and twist as Gatsby was shot by Wilson because of the lies he heard by Tom. Next, daisy whose love for wealth of Gatsby creates a dramatic scene when Gatsby dies, it left nothing but her own love Tom and his wealth.
Emma and clueless – - Use of an omniscient narrator to allow reader to reassess their impressions of the characters. - Occasional intrusive comments by the use of irony (mr knightley’) - Over loud, face paced, non diegetic, over bright colours - Music establishes mood and highlights the emotional states of characters - Mr knightley provides correct evaluation of the characters’ behaviours and personal worth - Emma’s lack of perception and the pain she caused Harriet was the first stage of self-awareness relinquishing by Harriet of mr elton’s memorabilia and her confession that she loves mr knightley forced emma to realise she loved him - Emma needs to accept her personal faults and demonstrate social responsibility through her actions,
“Money, Love and Aspirations in The Great Gatsby” by Roger Lewis attempts to tour the foundations of the characters in the original text by F. Scott Fitzgerald by replicating Gatsby’s world, and adding to it an anthropomorphic sheen that interrupts the novel’s didactic resonance and disconnects love, money, and aspiration. Lewis tries to argue that many of the characters have a sort of “doubleness” about them, meaning they fit two or more opposing stereotypes. Gatsby can be considered a scoundrel with dirty money and at the same time a helpless romantic, for example—he can aspire for love and money, while the journey for each inhibits the other. He asserts that Gatsby is a man aware of his own “doubleness”; disregarding the fact that Gatsby is, in reality, nothing more than ink on a bound stack of paper. Lewis also claims that, since Gatsby “sprang from his own Platonic conception of himself” (Fitzgerald, 98), Gatsby is “in a paradoxical position” where he “knows everything about [himself] that can be known, and yet the significance of such knowledge is unclear, for no outside contexts exist to create meaning” (47), forcing him to look to the past for purpose.
Author John Steinbeck has used techniques of imagery of her surroundings, symbolism, and themes, to illustrate and inform readers the development and progress of the conflict inside Elisa. The chrysanthemums is a powerful symbol in the story as it is depicted as her most valuable possession and it also represents only the inner workings of her character. Elisa Allen is described as ‘strong’ by her husband, Henry, because this strength is the façade that Elisa puts on in front of her husband. In The Chrysanthemums, a stranger entered her life- her ranch in the Salinas Valley- and affected her character by showering her with sweet words and creating the rising sensation of her want to be treated like a woman- to be called ‘beautiful’ and not ‘strong’. After some manipulation on the pot-mender’s part, she gradually drops her façade as a tough farmer’s wife and instead opens up to him.
Secondly, loss of innocence is also portrayed through Erica and her nostalgia as she keeps on clinging in the past when she still has her innocence. Lastly, America as a country and its reaction on the 9/11 attack demonstrate loss of innocence as America becomes aggressively patriotic which causes conflict between nations. Hamid’s protagonist, Changez, was consumed by the luxury and power that America can offer but as the novel progresses he realises that he is not being true to himself. He has become conformed to the Americans which brought him guilt. This forces him to wake up to the reality and confront his true identity.
Compare and contrast the different ways in which the writers present the destructive nature of jealousy in ‘Othello,’ ‘Wuthering Heights,’ and ‘A View from the Bridge,’ The dark side of love is presented in the three texts as the way that love can turn from appearing happy to destructive. Pride, jealousy and obsession are presented as components of flawed love and the inevitable consequences in such relationships after the intervention of a catalyst. These components combined with the flawed personalities of the characters lead to the need for revenge resulting in destruction and tragic death. One similarity between the texts is that the relationships at the beginning seem to be happy. In the 17th century a man sought approval from the father, however in ‘Othello,’ Desdemona and Othello had confirmed their relationship through marriage before asking Brabantio.
This is evident in chapter five, “There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.” Gatsby believes he is seeking true love, though the journey to this holds inevitable despair leading to death, loneliness and life without love. Ideal love and despair are both evident in Gatsby’s chase for Daisy; he believes Daisy
The deaths of Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson rekindled the flames of Tom and Daisy's marriage. Their ends marked a new beginning for both cheating spouses. They went from not being able to even stand each other to almost a normal matrimony. V. One discovery that stood out to me from reading this book, was the fact that persistence doesn't always pay off. Contrary to popular belief, sometimes it may have adverse consequences.