Romeo and Juliet end up dead and the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is over. In the case of Shakespeare in Love, Will loses Viola but his love for her lives on as seen in his later writings. So, one could argue that in some instances love does indeed conquer all and, in other cases, it does not. Following the path of true love can be a tragic one as seen in Romeo and Juliet. As for “Shakespeare in Love”, both characters meet society's wishes and therefore return to their normal lives never being quite the same.
The last archetype I chose for Romeo was the fall. Romeo fits this archetype because after marrying Juliet (the love of his life) He gets an incomplete message from his trusty servant. This sends Romeo furious and his emotions in an uproar. Romeo goes to see if the news is true. When he arrived at the family chamber he sees her laying there still, he gives her one last gentle kiss on her lips.
To begin with, is the targeting diction the author implies towards his mother in the speech. The situation creates frustration with his mother, his father’s wife, who was quick to betray Hamlet Senior by marrying Hamlet’s uncle in such a short time. For example, Hamlet expresses his frustration “she married. O most wicked speed to post” (line 155) toward the queen because she proceeds with her usual activities as if the death of her husband, the king, never happened. The significance in this is the careless attitude his mother has and the selfless mage she creates upon herself.
If Maupassant’s story “The Necklace” had been poorly written, it could easily have shown Mathilde quickly as only vain and superficial. But all writers must make us feel for their central characters if their stories are to be successful. Analyze Mathilde, her husband and any other secondary characters in the story and develop an argument that explains how Maupassant forces us to care about what happens to Mathilde. Guy de Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" tells of a vain, narcissistic middle-class housewife who longed for the aristocratic lifestyle that she believed she deserved. In describing Mathilde's callous self-centeredness in preparing for the party to which she and her husband were invited, as well as her reaction to losing what she thought was an expensive necklace she borrowed, de Maupassant incorporates a tragic irony that makes this story a timeless classic.
Both are complaining about their previous spouse. The ex-wife probably would not be able to do this in the time of “My Last Duchess”. Women did not have a voice then. Another large cultural difference is when the Duke orders the death of his Duchess, which would be considered criminal in the time of “My Ex-Husband.” This would also be true with “My Ex-Husband” when the ex-wife divorces her husband, this would be considered criminal at the time of the other poem. Other cultural differences are easy to point out, the painting in “My Last Duchess” compared to the photograph taken with a Leica in “My Ex-Husband.” The cultural differences do a great deal to make the poems differ, but they still remain inevitably
Australia's identity is said to piggy-back off the English and Americans, the key countries that influence Australia. In the article "Australian identity: who the bloody hell are we?" it is written that "It’s a case of stealing someone's heritage and pasting in your own; except not everyone knows the Australian version yet." The article expresses the struggle for Australia to generate its own unique identity. This problem with this is that fact that Australia does not have the Revolutions of France and America, neither the rich history of the Spanish or Chinese, Australia is too young.
It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (137) Gatsby is telling of how Daisy Buchanan is no longer loyal to Tom and how she now wants him back because he has run into money. Through Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald use of this character to exposes the new class that only wants to party and spend money. Daisy herself is old money locked in to the life of fortune.“But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there-it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motorcars and of dances who’s flowers were scarcely withered” (155-156). This is proof that Daisy is in it for the money and is now leaving Tom Buchanan for Jay Gatsby.
Mr Bennet continuously provokes his wife knowing she will take the bait as Mrs Bennet gets easily flustered and aggravated. Mr Bennet intended to visit Mr Bingley all along but teases his wife merely for his own amusement. The opening line of the first chapter ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife’ this is a particularly poignant statement as it is ironic in terms of its relation to the themes of the novel. Particularly in context with Austen’s own beliefs, Austen subverts seriousness of the acknowledged ‘truth’ with the relative frivolity of subject matter. The topics of ‘fortune’ and ‘wife’ are then related to ‘truth’ which ironically aren’t necessarily related as relationships and money aren’t proven to be honest in Pride and Prejudice.
In Elizabethan society, women had to obey their fathers in choosing their future husbands, but we have to realize that Olivia is free to choose her man, because he has no father and no brother. This is a clear innovation which Shakespeare uses to make Olivia feel free, which will be very useful as a literary device to make the plot of the comedy more complicated, and to make Orsino insist to get her favour. In the beginning of the play (Act 1, scene i) we see Duke Orsino listening to his court, which is playing music. He first asks for more music to fill himself with love to feel totally depressed. In this scene music must be interpreted as our emotions; so Orsino wants to find a cure to his depression, and maybe through an excess of love (music) he can kill it.
The Colonel’s Lady is a short story about Colonel George Peregrine and his reaction to a successful book of poems entitled When Pyramids Decay by E.K. Hamilton. It just so happens that the poetess is his own wife, Eva, who published the book under her maiden name. At first, the Colonel thinks nothing of his wife’s poems, treating her work with indifference. But, when Eva’s poems turn out to be quite a success both in bookstores and in the eyes of the literary critiques, he pays greater attention to her written words.