Essay 1
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Language III
Teachers: Prof. Mariano Quinterno Prof. Mariano Nastry
Student: Mariángeles Esquerdo
Once a cheater always a cheater
Cheater, liar, disloyal, unfaithful, infidel, adulterer: many ways of referring to a dishonest person whom you cannot rely on. Either in business or in personal affairs, a cheater is someone who uses misleading methods to obtain something he wants. As well, it is someone who is sexually unfaithful to its wife, husband, or lover. I will focus on this latter meaning and ask: “Is it possible for a cheater to turn into a trustful person?” The aim of this essay is to prove that, in spite of the circumstances, a cheater will always be a cheater.
Although literature belongs to fiction, I have always thought that it is a mirror of reality. It is a way of re telling events which could be perfectly found in real life. Infidelity has always been a recurrent topic in literature. For example, I can mention the case of the legendary womanizer “Don Juan”, who could not disregard any woman and found beauty and sexual attraction in all of them, but with a total lack of commitment. Another example of unfaithfulness, this time in marital life, is Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, in which both Tom and Daisy Buchanan are disloyal to each other.
Student: Mariángeles Esquerdo
I can also recall Hesse´s magnificent Steppenwolf, with the fictional character of Harry Haller, portrayed in a mad race towards unattainable satisfaction. We can read from Harry´s thoughts: “And, strange to say, this beautiful flower nevertheless constantly remained the present bestowed on me by Hermione. The latter constantly interposed herself between me and Maria, masking her fully. And at one juncture I suddenly thought of Erika, my poor girlfriend, the woman I loved who was somewhere far away, and cross with me. She was scarcely less good-looking than Maria, though not in such full bloom, not as liberated, less gifted in those ingenious little touches Maria brought
Language III
Teachers: Prof. Mariano Quinterno Prof. Mariano Nastry
Student: Mariángeles Esquerdo
Once a cheater always a cheater
Cheater, liar, disloyal, unfaithful, infidel, adulterer: many ways of referring to a dishonest person whom you cannot rely on. Either in business or in personal affairs, a cheater is someone who uses misleading methods to obtain something he wants. As well, it is someone who is sexually unfaithful to its wife, husband, or lover. I will focus on this latter meaning and ask: “Is it possible for a cheater to turn into a trustful person?” The aim of this essay is to prove that, in spite of the circumstances, a cheater will always be a cheater.
Although literature belongs to fiction, I have always thought that it is a mirror of reality. It is a way of re telling events which could be perfectly found in real life. Infidelity has always been a recurrent topic in literature. For example, I can mention the case of the legendary womanizer “Don Juan”, who could not disregard any woman and found beauty and sexual attraction in all of them, but with a total lack of commitment. Another example of unfaithfulness, this time in marital life, is Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, in which both Tom and Daisy Buchanan are disloyal to each other.
Student: Mariángeles Esquerdo
I can also recall Hesse´s magnificent Steppenwolf, with the fictional character of Harry Haller, portrayed in a mad race towards unattainable satisfaction. We can read from Harry´s thoughts: “And, strange to say, this beautiful flower nevertheless constantly remained the present bestowed on me by Hermione. The latter constantly interposed herself between me and Maria, masking her fully. And at one juncture I suddenly thought of Erika, my poor girlfriend, the woman I loved who was somewhere far away, and cross with me. She was scarcely less good-looking than Maria, though not in such full bloom, not as liberated, less gifted in those ingenious little touches Maria brought
References: Hesse, Hermann. Steppenwolf. 1927 Penguin Modern Classics p.151. Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. 1856 Wordsworth Classics p.53.