Compare And Contrast My Last Duchess And La Belle Dame Sans Merci

How is the separation of lovers and its consequences presented in the extract? This extract of Flora Macdonald Mayors ' novel, 'The rectors daughter ', develops the theme of hedonism being extingished by the misfortune of unrequited love, through the perspective of a middle aged woman of the 1920 's. Mary Jocelyn, the stories narrator, aims to persue the man of her desires, however his absence of affection is prominant in this extract when we discover his devotion to another woman. This extract is significant to the era, as newly upcoming 'flapper girls ' encouraged a future of female independence and open sexuality, but this segment leaves connotations that not all women took this lifestyle by storm, and still remained unsatisfied as a woman when unaccompanied by a husband, as shown through Mary 's characterisation in the text. Throughout the excerpt, the consequences faced by the separation of lovers is evident to leave a negative effect on the person on the receaving end.

In both Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel and Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the role of motherhood is emphasized. Everybody has a version of what they picture a mother to be, but some qualities, such as being nurturing and protective, can be agreed upon. In these two books the main roles of motherhood, protector and emotional supporter, are both explored. One of the roles of motherhood is to be a protector to the children, especially when a father isn’t in the picture.

As Sigmund Freud once said, “the only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past. ” In this essay, I will qualify the claim that Janie, the protagonist from Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a powerful role model for young readers because she pursues her own happiness despite obstacles. Janie does pursue her own happiness through her relationship with Joe Starks and Tea cake, even though they both come to a crashing end. The obstacles she has to overcome however, are created by herself. Janie creates her own adversity, and is then forced to overcome it to achieve what she desires.

Romance comes in all different forms and sizes, and Calbert understands that along with these she apprends why people fall in and out of love. Falling in love has a sense of vulnerability that requires taking risks that people are “willing to fail, / why we will still let ourselves fall in love,” in order to sustain real love. Calbert ends her poem with listing the romances with her husband and vows, “knowing nothing other than [their] love” because that is all that matters to her

Abelard and Heloise are that typical love story that always contains a twist. Their twist however, involves a threatening uncle of Heloise named Fulbert on a mission to fix Abelard and Heloise’s wrong. Abelard was a thirty-sever year old Professor of Logic and Canon of Notre Dame who does what every other man in a love story does, falls deeply in love with someone who challenges the usual role of women. After falling in love with Heloise, the two soon find out that he impregnated her, which in this time was a big shame for

The author said,"... and the smile, when she thought of sweet Elijah bravely fighting someone, somewhere– that was hers too" (46). This being the last sentence in the short story made me very confused. I read this and thought is that all she wanted in a husband, a "brave" and "kind" man to complete her perfect life. She was trying to love the perfect life that is unattainable for a normal female. She was trying to compare her life to a fairytale.

For instance, she says that “First my lord went out away… Then I went forth a friendless exile to seek service in my sorrow’s need” (6-10). Since she felt agony, she was seeking the attention by cheating (betraying) on her King with another man’s wooing. Although these characters express similar themes/emotions, they show it in different forms. As an example, the poem about the wife isn’t written in Anglo-Saxon, while the excerpt from Beowulf is.

Furthermore, Feminist Criticism provides a better view of literature because it shows that women can be powerful. When Emilia finds out that her husband has been plotting an evil plan she says,” Tis proper I obey him, but not now”(Othello V.2.195). Emilia refuses to help her husband after she finds the cruel intentions he has despite the expectation of women always being submissive to their husbands. Women also have a voice and feelings, they are capable of defying their husbands commands when they know what he expects is simply wrong. In a literary article,The Role of Women in Othello: A Feminist Reading states that,” Society weighs heavily on the shoulders of women; they feel that they must support the men and defer to them, even if the actions of the men are questionable” (Literary Articles).

The inner strength that Mandy Jane has is shown in the very beginning of the story through details and description that the author gives. Mandy Jane must dig deep to find every bit of her inner strength after Mama died while giving birth to her baby sister. Yolen shows this when writing about Mandy Jane’s response to her mother’s death. “”Mama Gone,” Bubba wailed again. But I never cried.”

This image seems at first cold, but it is a realistic judgment of her ideas of parenthood. The feeling of distance is also shown in: “I’m not more your mother than the cloud that distils as mirror to reflect its own slow effacement at the wind’s hoard.” The final lines of the poem present the reassuring vision of a loving mother attending to her baby's needs. Plath’s self-image – ‘cow-heavy and floral in my Victorian nightgown’ – is self-deprecating and realistic. The final image is an optimistic one.

When they believed in something, they believed in it hard. For instance, in the poem, “To my dear and loving husband” by Anne Bradstreet she states, “ My love is such that rivers cannot quench”. This resembles passion, because she loves him so much, and it is ever lasting. It basically just shows her strong feelings for the other person. Another example would be from “ Sinners in the hands on an angry God” by John Edwards.

One can note that Lady Capulet never says a positive word about the man that she married, yet speaks more highly of the father of the man her daughter married. A reader might find it interesting how paralleled Juliet and her mother are. Had Lady Capulet chosen love, she could have been dead like Juliet. Had Juliet chosen duty, she could have ended up in her mother’s shoes, married to a man that she doesn’t like or

Maybe one of the most shocking point is that it has actually taken Carrie Fisher as long to fess up. The notoriously honest star and also memoirist has actually been asked many times whether there was a real-life love on the collection of Star Wars, to mirror the partnership in between Princess Leia as well as Han Solo. No, certainly not, she would inevitably respond: she was a teen, Harrison Ford was 14 years older, they could not have actually been much more various, just what a daft concept. Currently she has actually composed The Princess Diarist, where she gets in touch with the journals she composed at the time, to expose that she had an extreme event with Ford.