Motifs In Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Marriage

In every relationship there is always an unequal relationship with the significant other. In the short story The Chaser by John Collier, Alan Austen who’s the main character in the short story goes to an old man to buy a love potion so this girl named Diana would fall in love with him. The basic principle states that men and women have a relationship that is unequal or oppressive. In the short story “The Chaser”, it shows feminist criticism by feeling unconfident, buying a love potion, and Diana’s treatment of Mr. Austen. My first main point of the story that touched on feminism was when Mr. Austen feeling unconfident.

The author, Diane Ackerman, makes the connection of love by connecting that “love is the great intangible” And that “love is throughout history” using descriptive language. Love is the great intangible is what Diane Ackerman said throughout the text. Diane connects the idea of love being an ancient delirium. For example, she says in paragraph 4, In folk stories, unsuspecting lads and lasses ingest love potion and quickly lose their hearts. As with all intoxicants, love comes in many guises and strengths.”

1.)The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Main Characters: Nick Carraway Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan Jordan Baker Myrtle Wilson George Wilson Owl Eyes Setting: The Roaring Twenties, West Egg and East Egg, New York, Long Island One Sentence Plot Summary: Nick meets Gatsby, who is madly in love with his cousin Daisy, and gets caught in the middle of a love triangle, Gatsby loved Daisy, but Daisy was more in love with the thought of Gatsby, and in the end the hectic love triangle “kills” (Really is was Wilson) Gatsby. Major Motifs and Themes: The “Hollowness” of The upper class.

Later in the story, when Inigo and Fezzick find Westley “almost dead,” they bring him to a wizard named “Miracle Max” and his wife, a witch. Previously demoted by Prince Humperdinck, Max’s need to destroy him is motivation to assist Westley. The interaction between the witch and Max provide comic relief to the obvious peril that the characters are under. The goofy and fun-loving roles that these “witches” take on illustrate how unrealistic this scene is. They treat his death casually, concocting a chocolate pill in order to resurrect Westley, as if this was a natural solution to the problem.

In ‘Macbeth’, Shakespeare shows the gradual change in the protagonist Macbeth by displaying how he goes from a hero to a tyrant. Similarly, in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, Stevenson includes the downfall of his protagonist in his story by showing him as a prestigious gentleman at the start of the play, but near the end he is shown as the villainous Mr Hyde. In ‘Macbeth’ the protagonists downfall is somewhat caused by the Witches and Lady Macbeth whereas in ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ the protagonists downfall is due to his addiction to his potion. At the start of the play, Macbeth is shown as kind and brave due to his acts in the war. King Duncan says, “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays the themes of love, lust and obsession, through the character of Jay Gatsby, who confuses lust and obsession with love. The character of Jay Gatsby was a wealthy business man, who the author developed as arrogant and tasteless. Gatsby 's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, was a subdued socialite who was married to the dim witted Tom Buchanan. She is the perfect example of how women of her level of society were supposed to act in her day. The circumstances surrounding Gatsby and Daisy 's relationship kept them eternally apart.

In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Love is stronger than Hate in how Romeo and Juliet feel in love at first sight, Juliet drinks a potion for later to be with Romeo, and Romeo thinks Juliet is dead he buys some poison and heads to the tomb to join Juliet in death. One way love is shown to be stronger than Hate in”Romeo and Juliet. Romeo’s love her Juliet was Love at first sight. Another example that shows that Love is stronger than Hate is when Romeo expresses how he feels about Juliet. For example,Shakespeare shows that Love is stronger than Hate when Romeo seen Juliet for the first time at the Capulet's party.

Hedda Gabler is a psychological domestic drama written by Henrik Ibsen in 1890, and has become one of his most talked about plays. The play centres on a complex, enigmatic female protagonist and femme fatale, Hedda Gabler, the daughter of the aristocratic General Gabler and married to middle-class scholar George Tesman. Hedda is a conflicted and often irresponsible egotist who feels suffocated in her sterile environment. She has married Tesman out of convenience and not out of true love. Although she may appear as the average, well-mannered housewife, she completely rejects the feminine duties presumed of her by her society and detests the thought of motherhood – she has no interest whatsoever in her unborn child and even admits that she has no maternal instinct or ability to be responsible for any being but herself.

At the end of the play Jack Worthing’s lineage becomes revealed, and it turns out he was the baby in the handbag Miss Prism lost so long ago. After further revelation it comes to light that Algernon and Jack are brothers, and Jack is actually named Ernest after all. Silly as it may seem this ending highlights Wilde’s criticism of Victorian triviality. Like magic in Lady Bracknell's eye’s Jack is now the perfect suitor for Gwindelon contradictory to what she thought before. Even more implausible is the fact that Jack can so easily forgive the woman who consistently questioned and belittled him.

lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; Cry but 'Ay me! ' pronounce but 'love ' and 'dove; ' Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. I conjure thee by Rosaline 's bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh.

wise,/ Then wrought a spell of glamour old,/ That bound the poppies on his eyes,/”(Bridges) Morgan is a clever women and uses the poppies to cast a sleeping spell on Launcelot. After she cast her spell she took him, with the other queens, to her castle “there she woke him from the spell”(Bridges). She wakes him up demanding he marry her and love her, but when she rejects him she is furious and keeps him as a

Victorian literature is often characterized by the triumph of good over evil (Redd). In Jekyll and Hyde, the theme of Victorianism persists, but not without some quirks. When Mr. Hyde runs into the little girl on the street, he is quickly brought to reckon with his wrong by Mr. Enfield and the girl’s family, showing rather early in the text that traditional Victorian values are most assuredly present. However, in the long run of the story, the Victorianism of the story first looks to be faint.

In Book III of Edmund Spenser 's Faerie Queene, Spenser manages to hide the picture of Queen Elizabeth’s sexuality and motherless fate under the enchanting plot of a unblemished princess—Britomart—going on a quest to find her supposedly future husband that she saw in her father’s enchanted mirror. Julia Walker argues and “also, holds true for the work of Edmund Spenser as he pro- duced perhaps the greatest portrait of Elizabeth 's reign: Britomart in The Faerie Queene. Spenser 's Elizabeth portrait surpasses all the painted panels, however richly encoded with meanings, because through the force of epic narrative it can present a changing image, one confronted by physical and political realities and altered by those confrontations” 172-4).Julia Anderson described the heroine in the following: "Britomart is the figure of a young woman vested in armor that forms and masks, expresses and veils, protects and contains her" (Anderson 74), wherein she "has become a complicated cultural signifier implicated in cultural conceptions of gender"

In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the power of the towns government and religion are the backbone of the story, the case of the witch trials. In the book, the main character, Abigail, blames numerous girls for witchcraft. "I'll lead them in a psalm,but let you say nothing of witchcraft yet" (Miller 17). She does this out of spite due to jealousy over goody Proctor. In their town, based on their religion, witchcraft is serious, devilish ritual and forbidden.

First of all, friendship is created through freedom; the reason for this is because freedom involves the privilege of choice. Due to this privilege, we are able to select what people will be our friends and who will not. Lewis explains that, in friendship, there is no moral requirement to find friends or become someone’s friend. In addition, designating certain people as friends can be potential dangers for both individuals and society as a whole. In addition, one may believe that when one has companions then he or she has friendship.