Comparing The Grasshopper And The Bell Cricket

Love is an emotional connection to a particular object that can lead individuals to commit hances decisions. In life one comes across love as a conditional topic that everyone goes through at least once in their life time, but in literature it is described in a different manner. Every author has their own way of representing love though their writing. In these stories one can see how authors elaborate the different forms of love. In "The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket" by Yasuari Kawabata he demonstrates an innocent love between children, In "On Her Loving Two Equally" by Aphra Behn she shows a confusion in love between an adolescent female character and two male characters, In "'How Do I Love Thee'" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning it shows
"How I love Thee Two Equally" shows a dysfunctional relationship between an anonymous female character who is in love with two male characters, Damon and Alexis. In the story she is indecisive on who to choose. Constantly she repeats the sorrow she feels when she is with them. She implies that she would not love each if it wasn't for the others influence, so she pleads with Cupid to take one way, but she did not know which because she feels she would be lost and confused if she did not have both (Behn 712). This story demonstrating that adolescents do not really understand the difference in love and a mear infatuation. Others may give it a whole different meaning for example in the article by Virginia Brackett she says that feminist critics believe Behn wrote the story to show a parody of how men in that time where not criticized for having multiple women. What Brackett wrote is not necessarily wrong, but the initial meaning of the poem does not have to be a parody, but a demonstration of what adolescent believe love is. When one is an adolescent they are constantly changing and do not yet have the capacity to control their feelings. Making them impulsive individuals who are easily manipulated by their own feelings; especially when it comes to love. Meaning they are not a good example of what a functional relationship could
In the play the characters are the first thing that is introduced they are Mr. and Mrs. Wright, The Sheriff, The County Attorney, Framer Hale, Mrs. Hale, and Mrs. Peters, the Sheriff's wife. In the story Mrs. Wright seems to have been isolated from individuals because her husband was a tedious man. Her only companion being a bird who Mr. Wright kills and that leads Mrs. Wright to kill her husband. In the play the County Attorney, the Sheriff, and farmer Hale investigate the house of the Wrights for clues that could convict Mrs. Wright, they take their wives so they can get Mrs. Wright something to make her feel more comfortable in jail. In the story the wives are the ones who seem to find all of the clues that could imprison Mrs. Wright, but they don't share it with their husband, because they seem to realize that they shared similar aspects of Mrs. Wrights life with her husband (Glaspell 1155-1165). Overall this story represents a dysfunctional relationship between two individuals because it has no identification on what love is, and instead discusses a bigger topic that is still alive in today's times. Glaspell shows how woman are not seen as equal with man and instead seen as simple-minded labors who do not meet male image. Greg Beatty see that and makes decent points when discussing