Great Expectations Foil

(1) However there are many clues in Poe’s diction that indicate his feelings towards her where more than a son would have for his mother. For example he goes to great lengths in order to explain her physical beauty. When Poe wrote, “Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, “Thy Naiad airs have brought me home,” he seems to be insinuating that his feelings for her were more than filial. Regardless, Poe’s tone is loving. Every word points to how much he admires her.

Daisy is a narcissistic person that constantly starts problems and getting in trouble even with Gatsby who risk everything for her and will die for her so she can be pleased. She keeps Gatsby around because he can do her dirty work. She said she loves Gatsby but in reality she never did. Daisy just wanted someone to have fun with that spoils her rather than her very own husband, Tom. “As soon as she finds out that Gatsby may be making his wealth in backroom, bootlegging ways, she’s done with the whole flirtation.” (Baker.Katie) In other words, Baker believes that Daisy was just using Gatsby all along.

We are all protective of each other but we also are have much fun together. The Odyssey shows loyalty like a family too. Loyalty in The Odyssey is extremely important and prevalent virtue as it is shown by Penelope’s hopefulness, Odysseus’s perseverance, and other characters’ almost unrecognized acts of homage. The largest act of loyalty is shown by Penelope with her hope for the life of her husband, Odysseus. One way in the story that Penelope

Dictionary.com states love is “a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.” Love is a very passionate feeling for someone that a person chooses to give all of ourselves to that only deepens over time. On the other hand, infatuation is to act foolish with unreasoning passion, as love (Dictionary.com). Infatuation is like lust, something you rush into that is unpredictable and ends suddenly. Romeo and Juliet both fit definitions of love.

Passion can transform a person. Demetrius’ passions transformed him from a man pining for love just to show his worth, to a man of great hatred for the woman who loves him most, and finally to a man head over heels for the same woman he loathed just a day before. Demetrius was passionate about all three of these situations and they all transformed him in some way. Demetrius experienced the extremes of emotion because he was passionate. His passions helped mold his character and made him endure hope, hatred, and

He chooses the company of those who live by high standards. He helps keep his home and community clean. Reverent, a Scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the beliefs of

Daisy 's Open Door In the novel, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author illustrates the corruption within each character through their relationships with each other and through the eyes of Nick Carraway. Daisy Buchanan is one character with flaws, she is arrogant, she loves extravagance, she loves rich men, but most of all she loves her status and she will do anything to keep it. Tom first realized that Daisy loves Gatsby when she and Gatsby had looked at each other and stared, “He was astounded. His mouth opened a little, and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as someone he knew along time ago.”(64). That person he recognized from long ago was a girl in love.

She lived in the constant DREAD Of Making Her Spouse Angry. A young innocent girl starved for affection meets a HANDSOME man,. Desiring for him to fill an emptiness in her life, she is willing to do anything for him. In her naivety she believes this will make him love her. His feelings for her, are POWER and LUST not LOVE!

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights depicts the various ways love can be distorted or wrongfully defined through unreal expectations, revenge, and possession. Often times unfair expectations are placed upon people who have a hard time conforming to society. In the novel Catherine Earnshaw must choose between her adolescent love Heathcliff and the man trying to court her, Edgar Linton. Bronte illustrates this struggle on page 78 where Catherine cries, “I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am.” Catherine ends up choosing to marry Edgar Linton because it would be considered forbidden to marry outside of her social class; nevertheless she would be doing so if she had gone off with Heathcliff.

But even with all her power, Jason bends her like a young pine in a hard wind; he makes her double in two. I know her” (Ward 38). Defeated by her feelings for Manny and powerlessness as a woman surrounded by men, Esch idolizes Medea; she covets Medea’s ability to manipulate and destroy. She also sympathizes with her betrayal because no matter how hard she tries, even before he knows about her pregnancy, Manny refuses to have any real relationship with her. Esch’s misery slowly develops into anger that climaxes when she tells Manny he is the father of her child.