“Modern Love.” The term brings to mind the changing dynamic of today's society. This change has been present for decades and continues on to this day. In George Meredith's poem he illiterates the negative impact of this change in a case that could encompass so many couples; the pain of a loveless marriage. Through his use of diction, and metaphor Meredith show the pain and heartache of two people being so close, yet so emotionally distant.…
“Saint Marie” is a chapter from “Love Medicine” written by Louise Erdrich in 1984. “Love Medicine” is her first novel, in which she focuses on the relations between two Chippewa families living on an Indian Reservation. Marie Lazarre is one of the major characters from whose viewpoint we can learn about their lives in the reservation and outside.…
After reading the two short stories, Love in L.A by Dagoberto Gilb and What We Talk about When We Talk about Love by Raymond Carver, I have realized that a common feeling like ‘love’ can be painted into so many different pictures. Each one of these short stories is written by two different authors and sees ‘love’ at different angles. The character Jake in Love in L.A. has this vision of love that is more of a mockery. Then, Terri’s ex-husband in What We talk about When We Talk about Love has so much passion, but the kind of passion that can be interoperated as obsession. The lies and misconceptions of ‘love’ that Jake and Terri’s ex-husband display reveal that ‘love’ does not exist in a world filled with nothing but cruelty and evil actions.…
Love Medicine is a series of short stories that was written by Lousie Erdrich in 1984 and covers a time span of 60 years. Love Medicine is set in North Dakota on an Indian reservation known as Turtle Mountain. Although the novel is fiction, the cultural, social, and economical aspects depicted are very realistic. Hertha Sweet Wong describes Love Medicine as “Metafiction, ironically self-conscious in its mode of telling, concerned as much with exploiting the process of storytelling as with the story itself.” (35) Erdrich’s Love Medicine is not so much based on plot as on several key relationships. These relationships include; the love triangle between Marie, Nector, and Lulu; June and how her death made an impact on other characters and Lipsha a key figure to understanding the novel.…
At a young age Florentino Ariza caught a horrible sickness consisting of diarrhea and vomiting that became so severe his mother, Transito Ariza, called Florentino’s godfather who was an old homeopathic practitioner. They feared he may have Cholera. “But his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera” (Marquez 62). Garcia-Marquez hypothesizes that love is like Cholera. Once it enfuses its virus into you it slowly breaks you down bit by bit. Only a few lucky souls will avoid it, and…
When people fall in love problems come and with problems come tragedies. Just like in the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Their tragic deaths cause by Romeo, Juliet, and Nurse.…
The main goal for an author is to grab the reader's attention and keep them interested in what they are reading. This pushes the author to write with a theme that all readers can relate with. The usage of love is a perfect example. It allows readers of all ages to relate on a personal level and become intimate with the novel. Different pieces of literature do this in various ways. In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, love was used to accelerate and progress the plot of the story. Guitar's love for his race, Hagar's obsession for Milkman, and Milkman's love of his ancestors are ways that Morrison was able to use the theme of love in her novel.…
Embarrassed, unsure, minimal food, without a clue. These are all things that play a part in both rites of passage. The medicine bag rite of passage is about a boy named Martin that las a Lakota grandpa that's time is coming to an end yet he still needs to pass down the tradition. The Apache girl rite of passage is about a girl that has to go through an intense process to get to her success of being a woman 0f her tribe. My scrutiny of these two stories confess that there are many similarities and differences between the two in addition, there were also some disadvantages and advantages of having the story in a text or video format.…
“Love is a disease.” This line is well known but takes a different perspective in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. These two teenagers take their lives because they rather be dead than live another day without one another. This creates a bond to the fact that illnesses start to cause people to lose hope in finding a solution and everything starts to become unpredictable. Through personification, weaknesses, and perseverance, this play takes a deep turn and mysteriously relates to diseases in a creative and unique…
What is love? Often enough, as a hormone-struck teenager, I am lectured on what love is not. According to my mother, father, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and every adult figure that has ever made a guest-star appearance in the long-winded romance novel that is my life, love is NOT the warm cuddly feeling I get when I see a cute boy at school. Love is NOT holding hands on the playground; is not caring an abnormal amount for a favorite pair of shoes. I feel as though a vast amount of time is spent describing the negative space of a person’s heart, and not long enough spent defining its shape. Although Pastor Ostrum follows suit with his anti-definition of what love is not, he definitely strikes a chord in my heart when he says that “love is not something we wait to have happen to us, but something we do.” Many might disagree, might argue that love is a two-way street; that in order to give we must first receive. However, in the novel “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back,” by Stanley Gordon West, Cal Gant demonstrates this principle of giving time and time again.…
It can be said that struggles bring people together and, at the same time, break them apart. When two people realize their life situations are quite similar are controlled by fundamentalism, they tend to stay close to one another for comfort and understanding, even though they share nothing in interest. However one will eventually attempt a change, to try and manipulate their circumstances for the better or to leave. The other is inevitably left alone and desolate. Although a complicated kindness entwines many such consequences from social issues and other obstacles deep inside its storylines, it reveals its dominant theme in the conclusion: that love endures in the end. Love will make hardships tolerable, will bind people together in spirit if not in a physical sense, and will brighten the optimism in the heart.…
One object that repeatedly appears in the novel, Love Medicine, is alcohol. Many of the main characters exhibit traits of and struggle with alcoholism. A majority of the chapters in Love Medicine present scenes of characters drinking alcohol, whether it be in casual occasions or in more serious matters. It seems that these Native Americans in the novel treat drinking as a social and cultural activity, at first, but then it turns to an addiction and a serious problem for some of these characters. This presence of alcohol is an underlying factor that drives these main characters’ actions and ultimately determines the plot of the novel. I believe that the drive of alcohol and drunkenness leads characters to make decisions about love and this can be related to the title, Love Medicine.…
Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein is an example of why the concept of love is unique. Victor Frankenstein, an aspiring scientist from Geneva, discovers a way to reanimate life from inanimate objects. Victor decides to create a human being by reviving a corpse using electricity. However, Victor is horrified when his creation is imperfect and deformed, which causes Victor to regret his actions. Unfortunately for Victor, his problems grow worse as his monster desires revenge against its creator for its inability to fit into society, as humans want to destroy the creature. Once the monster murders Victor’s family and friends, Victor promises to avenge his fallen loved ones by destroying the creature he created. When he spends years of searching…
Throughout history, the media has shown many different sides of love. Weather it be peaceful, violent, dangerous, beautiful, almost all forms of the media have shown love in some way. In the novel The Great Gatsby, love is shown between many different characters in different ways. The reader experiences love at its best and worst. We see relationships flourish, rekindle and end between the different characters. The most controversial relationship is the relationship between Daisy and Tom. Through infidelity, and mistrust, tragedy occurs. Other characters become associated with their marital problems, showing different kinds of love and relationships. In the play Hamlet, the reader also experiences many different kinds of love, ranging from lost love to superficial love. The relationships between Hamlet and Ophelia, and Claudius and Gertrude all create conflict which inevitably leads to tragedy. Many characters become involved with the relationships between Ophelia and Hamlet and Claudius and Gertrude which also leads to tragedy for many of those characters also. In both works of literature, pressures of people and society have corrupted the love that the characters felt for themselves and others, which lead to tragic endings.…
An object that appears a lot in the novel, Love Medicine, is alcohol. Many characters struggle with alcoholism. Some of the characters exhibit using alcohol as a social activity and others exhibit it as an addiction that leads to most of their actions. The presence of alcohol is the main factor that leads to the behavioral acts of the characters. In Love Medicine alcohol is portrayed as a form of medicine to relieve pain and agony but in the long run leads to more problems.…