A demonstration of what a fickle person she is, is shown when she first meets Cecily. When they are first acquainted, Gwendolen tells her, “Something tells me that we are going to be great friends. I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions of people are never wrong. ”(Wilde 34).
‘You can’t repent the past.’ ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He (Gatsby) cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’ (Fitzgerald 110).
Laertes was always supportive of his sister and was very upset when he found out that she had gone “mentally insane”. Hamlet was so envious of him for this reason because he was in love with Ophelia. The fact that Hamlet couldn’t show his love for Ophelia like Laertes did, set a fire inside of him. After Ophelia had drowned, (committed suicide), they had a funeral for her and Hamlet confessed his love for Ophelia feeling relieved and equal to
After Doodle dies alone in the storm, the reader grasps the “true love” the narrator had for him, which he never expressed toward his younger brother. In the closing paragraph, the narrator reveals his “true love” that was hidden inside him, “ I began to weep, and the tear-blurred vision in red before me looked very familiar. ‘Doodle!’ I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his. For a long long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain” (604).
(Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” 511-512). At this point, she has truly fallen in love but ends up suffering the most
The thing that I love most about camp is that nothing ever changes. Of course each summer, new nine-year-olds would arrive but the principles of honor, respect and hope would live on,
Though Esther feels like she knows every aspect about him, and even though both of their respective families attend the same Unitarian church, they are dichotomies of each other. In Buddy Willard’s bedroom, Esther realizes that he is a chauvinist, and predicts the fact that Esther will give up her professional ambitions to compose poetry in order to bear his children. Esther is repulsed at the fact that though Buddy outwardly displays his conservative, yet patriarchal, ideals; his confession which details his affair with a restaurant waitress discredits him. Esther states, “What I couldn 't stand was Buddy 's pretending I was so sexy and he was so pure … and must have felt like laughing in my face,” (Plath, 71). The narrator sets up the tone in Buddy’s voice to help the reader visualize his god complex, and how repulsed she is, even comparing his “meat and potatoes” to “turkey gizzards”.
"I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise" (Desdemona - Act II, Scene I). This quote was said by Desdemona when she was talking to Iago. She said that even though she pretends to be happy and active, she is still very worried about husband, Othello’s safety. Desdemona falls madly in love with Othello after he wooed her with his adventure stories.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship caused many chaotic outcomes, but in the end it proved to be fatal. In the beginning of Macbeth, the readers are already aware of the fascinating relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth received a letter from her husband about the witches’ prophecies. He wrote, “This have I thought good to to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness.”
Daisy is miserable being married to Tom but stays with him anyways cause she is worried what will happen. Also, Jay Gatsby has always loved Daisy Buchanan, and thinks that she will fall for him once she sees how successful he has become. On the other hand Nick doesn’t have much but is happy with what he has and falls in love with a Jordan Baker and doesn’t care if he is rich or not. So in reality it doesn’t matter if you’re rich but if you’re happy.
In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, is challenged by the world around him. One of the main issues he faces is “ . . . constantly [feeling] as if he is being surrounded by his enemies. (Huber and Ledbetter 254)”
After spending years married to Tom, she has become used to looking into the material items. When reunited with Gatsby she only points her attention on what he has materialistically: “They’re such beautiful shirts … it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before” (pg 92). The reason Daisy is so upset is because she acknowledges that she could have had multiple materialistic gains whist being married to Gatsby in a love-filled relationship. When she sees what she could have had her mirage of a perfect life begins to crumble. But this leads to her in the end resorting to her false outward appearance since it is easier for her to fall back into her lie that confront her own truth, that she is unhappy presently.
Georgiana is said to be a beautiful lady and the birthmark does seem to some of the men that fell in love with before she got married. Aylmer loves his wife but because of strive for perfection he dooms his wife to death because all of his experiments never end the way he wants. When Georgiana reads Aylmer journals and realizes
The marriage between Daisy and Tom started off with Tom cheating on their honeymoon. This endless act pattern never ceases. While Tom does claim that “[o]nce in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time,” Daisy snapily replies “you 're revolting.” Even at the beginning of the book, Daisy refers to Tom as “a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen.” She married him because of his status and the “pomp and circumstance” he brought.
I am disgusted by you. I am amazed by your ignorance, lack of direction, lack of common sense and you are the reason that humanity has its flaws. I don’t accept you, and your worlds of closed-minded thinking and being “the best”. You are not "cool." You are not respected.