Compare and contrast the presentation on the destructive nature of love and desire in The Tempest‚ The Great Gatsby and Rapture. (Word count 3081) The complexities of love and desire are repeatedly illustrated in all three texts. Shakespeare‚ Fitzgerald and Duffy depict the destructive nature of love and desire through the themes of greed‚ selfishness and obsession. These are conveyed through metaphors‚ similes and personification. The most prominent technique used by all the writers to demonstrate
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’s "A Trampwoman ’s Tragedy" have in common a lover ’s regret for love lost. However‚ the main narrators in these poems are very different and the circumstances in their poems show a lot about the difference that social class and gender make in the love lives seen in "When we two parted" and "A Trampwoman ’s Tragedy". Looking at the tone‚ narrator gender‚ and setting of these poems the reader can see how a single general theme‚ regret over a lost lover‚ gets explored in very different ways.
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love then the two partners have temporarily escaped from the truth. As readers follow through Olds’s description of images‚ we can sense the poet’s thoughts on sex between lovers and sex between loveless lovers. Olds expresses early in the poem that loveless sex is somewhat degrading. Her initial question of how loveless lovers can do it carries a negative tone. This is similar to someone asking his or her friend how they could betray them. Olds does not approve of this act because it is cold
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Contrast of Two Literary Works The short stories “Country Lovers” and “The Welcome Table” have some similarities and differences. Gordimer’s “Country Lover’s” and Walker’s “The Welcome Table” are both considered short stories and have racial disparities. The two stories share some common general features with racial themes but are also different in some ways. This essay will compare and contrast the two literary works‚ “Country Lovers” written by Nadine Gordimer in 1975 and “The Welcome Table”
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in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the two young lovers Romeo and Juliet‚ meet and fall in love. The unaccepted love causes the lovers to plot to run away. However passion‚ bad timing‚ and accidents were forces of fate responsible for the two lover’s deaths. Therefore fate is responsible in many ways for the deaths of the two young lovers‚ Romeo and Juliet. Accidents were one of the forces of fate responsible for the deaths of the two young lovers. In Act 3 scene 1‚ Benvolio reveals to the Prince
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life has to offer or can offer. The sphere of his poetic creation is a world of specific men and women‚ that too the lovers of all temperaments‚ faithful‚ criminal‚ jealous‚ cheaters‚ rogues‚ and the true lovers of their beloved‚ the ardent lovers‚ who‚ want to accompany their beloveds in the other world of souls‚ the lovers who are thirsty of flesh of their beloved and the lovers who just want a place in the heart of their beloved in lieu of the whole they possess. “Here’s God’s Plenty” as Dryden
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ideas about love. It expounds the theme that pure‚ spiritual or real love can exist only in the bond of souls established by the bodies. For Donne‚ true love only exists when both bodies and souls are inextricably united. Donne criticizes the platonic lover who excludes the body and emphasizes the soul. The fusion of body and soul strengthens spiritual love. Donne compares bodies to planets and souls to the angels that body and souls are inseparable but they are independent. According to medieval mystical
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Donne’s work‚ playing a crucial part in reflecting his thoughts. In the poem “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning‚ John Donne applied metaphysical conceit in pacifying her lover and justifying the love between himself and the lover. The title‚ a valediction‚ is itself the first conceit in the poem. John Donne related the death of his lover to the passing away of a virtuous man. Such a separation cannot be superseded by their spiritual attachment. While love was‚ generally‚ associated with physicality and
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and rebukes the sun because it has wakened him and his lover from their sleep. He demands to know why lovers should obey time. He also shows his dominance over the sun‚ calling it a ‘saucy pedantic wretch’ and tells the sun to bother other people instead such as late school boys or workers imploring or more time to sleep. He tells the sun to find the royal court people and farmers to let them start their day instead of controlling the lovers‚ because time does not exist in love and unlike season
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contextual concerns of Victorian society. In particular it highlights the expectations that come with a patriarchal society and the need for men to dominate. This desire to be in control can be seen through the frustrations and madness of the Duke and the Lover. The Duke becomes enraged when he believes that he has lost control over his wife through her supposed act of infidelity‚ with the speculation of his late wife committing adultery‚ ‘She thanked men-good! But thanked somehow I know not how‚’ the pause
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